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ref

Standard LDAP referral attribute type

Synopsis

( 2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.34
 NAME 'ref'
 DESC 'Standard LDAP referral attribute type'
 SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26
 X-ORIGIN 'RFC 3296' )

Description

Used in LDAPv3 to support smart referrals. Contains an LDAP URL in the format:

ldap://servername:portnumber/DN

The port number is optional.

Syntax

IA5 String, multi-valued.

Examples

ref: ldap://server.example.com:389/ou=People, o=example.com

Note that DN special characters must be escaped. For example:

ref: ldap://server.example.com:389/ou=People, o=example%Inc

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWdsee7
Stability Level	Standard: IETF, RFC 3296 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3296.txt)