Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 Administrator's Guide

Figure 5.2. Sample Indirect CoS
In this example, the target entry for William Holiday contains the indirect specifier, the manager
attribute. William's manager is Carla Fuentes, so the manager attribute contains a pointer to the
DN of the template entry, cn=Carla Fuentes,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com. The template
entry in turn provides the departmentNumber attribute value of 318842.
2.1.5. How a Classic CoS Works
An administrator creates a classic CoS that uses a combination of the template DN and a CoS
specifier to identify the template entry containing the postal code. The three CoS entries appear
as illustrated in Figure 5.3, “Sample Classic CoS”:
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