Targeting a Directory Entry

Use the target keyword and a DN inside an LDAP URL to target a specific directory entry and any entries below it. The targeted DN must be located in the entry where the ACI is defined or in the subtree below the entry. The target expression has the following syntax:

(target = "ldap:///distinguishedName")
(target != "ldap:///distinguishedName")

The distinguished name must be located in the entry where the ACI is defined or in the subtree below the entry. For example, the following target can be used in an ACI on ou=People,dc=example,dc=com:

(target = "ldap:///uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com")

The keyword target is optional. If it is not present, the default target for the ACI is the entry where the ACI is stored.

Note - The DN of the entry must be a distinguished name in string representation (defined in RFC 2253). Therefore, characters syntactically significant for a DN, such as commas, must be escaped with a single backslash (\). For example:

(target="ldap:///uid=cfuentes,o=Example Bolivia\, S.A.")

You can also use a wildcard in the DN to target any number of entries that match the LDAP URL. The following are legal examples of wildcard usage:

(target="ldap:///uid=*,dc=example,dc=com") Matches every immediate child of the example.com branch entry that has the uid attribute in the entry's RDN, as shown in this example.
```
uid=tmorris,dc=example,dc=com
uid=yyorgens,dc=example,dc=com
uid=bjensen,dc=example,dc=com
```
(target="ldap:///uid=*,**,dc=example,dc=com") Matches every entry more than one level below the example.com branch entry that has the uid attribute in the entry's RDN, as shown in this example.
```
uid=tmorris,ou=sales,dc=example,dc=com
uid=yyorgens,ou=marketing,dc=example,dc=com
uid=bjensen,ou=eng,ou=east,dc=example,dc=com
```
(target="ldap:///uid=*Anderson,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com") Matches every entry immediately below the ou=People branch entry with a uid ending in Anderson.
(target="ldap:///*=*Anderson,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com") Matches every entry immediately below the ou=People branch whose RDN ends with Anderson, regardless of the naming attribute.

Multiple wildcards are allowed, such as in uid=*,ou=*,dc=example,dc=com, which matches every entry in the example.com tree whose distinguished name contains the uid and ou attributes in the specified positions.

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