Chapter 1 About Schema
Groups in the directory, including unordered lists of individual objects or groups of objects.
Locations, such as the country name and description.
Organizations in the directory.
People in the directory.
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgperson
In this structure, the inetOrgperson object class should not be placed on an entry until the person and organizationalPerson object classes have been defined on the entry.
Each person entered in the directory is defined by the collection of attributes in the person object class. Other attributes used to define this entry could include:
surname: Salk
mail: jonass@airius.com
Required and Allowed Attributes Required attributes include the attributes that must be present in entries using the object class. All entries require the objectClass attribute, which lists the object classes to which an entry belongs.
The base OID for the Netscape Directory Server is
All Netscape-defined attributes have the base OID of
All Netscape-defined object classes have the base OID of
object classes and attributes are defined in the directory schema
attributes required for an object class are contained in the entry
only attributes allowed by the object class are contained in the entry