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Attribute

An LDAP directory entry consists of one or more attributes. Attributes have types and values. The type determines the information that the values can contain. The type also specifies how the value is processed. For example, the type determines whether an attribute can have multiple values. The mail attribute type, which contains an e-mail address, is multivalued so you can store multiple e-mail addresses for one person.

Some commonly-used attribute types have short keyword type names. Often these correspond to longer type names, and the two names can be used interchangeably. The following table lists common attribute type keywords used in LDAP directories:

Keyword	Long name	Comment
c	CountryName
st	stateOrProvinceName
l	LocalityName	typically, city, but can be any geographical unit
street	StreetAddress
o	OrganizationName
ou	OrganizationalUnitName
cn	CommonName	typically, first and last name
sn	SurName
dc	domaincomponent
mail	mail	e-mail address

At the time this chapter was written, Netscape provided a list of standard Attribute names on its website, at:

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/directory/schema2/41/contents.htm

For more information, see Attribute type.


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