Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-directory-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 11242 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2007 11:35:15 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Feb 2007 11:35:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 51804 invoked by uid 500); 1 Feb 2007 11:35:21 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-directory-users-archive@directory.apache.org Received: (qmail 51778 invoked by uid 500); 1 Feb 2007 11:35:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@directory.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: users@directory.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list users@directory.apache.org Received: (qmail 51767 invoked by uid 99); 1 Feb 2007 11:35:21 -0000 Received: from herse.apache.org (HELO herse.apache.org) (140.211.11.133) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:35:21 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.0 required=10.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (herse.apache.org: domain of elecharny@gmail.com designates 64.233.162.229 as permitted sender) Received: from [64.233.162.229] (HELO nz-out-0506.google.com) (64.233.162.229) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:35:13 -0800 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i28so441892nzi for ; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:34:52 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=EZ2O1aMmXBCamRZGILXT/uf7Ik3KsZpjfjRaGa4Ub3lR/1m8dSqHjVgkRyCbE+G9/tjvdtDX+6Z8+7k338v7o9ubNc1mGI3bTRmJM+Yyv/uoMH6goeCICfP21tj1s6W6OCkG6p06eUUzFRlXe/mrRlp2iJIzEETwETH7S2816yE= Received: by 10.65.213.4 with SMTP id p4mr3474952qbq.1170329692030; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:34:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.96.11 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 03:34:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:34:51 +0100 From: "Emmanuel Lecharny" Reply-To: elecharny@iktek.com To: users@directory.apache.org Subject: Re: what is meaning of O, cn, ou,.... In-Reply-To: <45C1CB71.60303@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_2379_30759494.1170329691991" References: <45C1CB71.60303@gmail.com> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org ------=_Part_2379_30759494.1170329691991 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline O is the short name for Organization CN is the short name for Common Name OU =3D Organization Unit etc... It comes from X500, and has been adopted in LDAP (as LDAP was created as a leightweight protocol to communicate with X500 servers) You can find the signification of all those short names on sites like http://ldap.akbkhome.com/index.php/attribute.html Hope it helps Emmanuel On 2/1/07, legolas wood wrote: > > Hi > Thank you for reading my post. > can some one please explain meaning of o, cn, ou, cn.... term that is > used in ApacheDS documentation? > > Thanks > --=20 Cordialement, Emmanuel L=E9charny www.iktek.com ------=_Part_2379_30759494.1170329691991--