Installation guide

RFC
Request for Comments. Procedures or standards documents submitted to the Internet
community. People can send comments on the technologies before they become accepted
standards.
role
An entry grouping mechanism. Each role has members, which are the entries that possess the
role.
role-based att ributes
Attributes that appear on an entry because it possesses a particular role within an associated
CoS template.
root
The most privileged user available on Unix machines. T he root user has complete access
privileges to all files on the machine.
root suffix
The parent of one or more sub suffixes. A directory tree can contain more than one root suffix.
S
SASL
An authentication framework for clients as they attempt to bind to a directory. Also Simple
Authentication and Security Layer .
schema
Definitions describing what types of information can be stored as entries in the directory. When
information that does not match the schema is stored in the directory, clients attempting to
access the directory may be unable to display the proper results.
schema checking
Ensures that entries added or modified in the directory conform to the defined schema. Schema
checking is on by default, and users will receive an error if they try to save an entry that does
not conform to the schema.
Secure Socket s Layer
See SSL.
self access
When granted, indicates that users have access to their own entries if the bind DN matches the
targeted entry.
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