System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

Default Directory Information Tree (DIT)

By default, Solaris LDAP clients access the information assuming that the DIT has a given structure. For each domain supported by the LDAP server, there is a subtree with an assumed structure. This default structure, however, can be overridden by specifying Service Search Descriptors (SSDs). For a given domain, the default DIT will have a base container that holds a number of well known containers that hold entries for a specific information type. See the following table for the names of these subtrees. (This information can be found in RFC 2307 and others.)

Table 13–1 DIT Default Locations

Default Container 

Information Type 

ou=Ethers

bootparams(4), ethers(4) 

ou=Group

group(4) 

ou=Hosts

hosts(4), ipnodes(4), publickey for hosts 

ou=Aliases

aliases(4) 

ou=Netgroup

netgroup(4) 

ou=Networks

networks(4), netmasks(4) 

ou=People

passwd(1), shadow(4), user_attr(4), audit_user(4), publickey for users 

ou=printers

printers(4) 

ou=Protocols

protocols(4) 

ou=Rpc

rpc(4) 

ou=Services

services(4) 

ou=SolarisAuthAttr

auth_attr(4) 

ou=SolarisProfAttr

prof_attr(4), exec_attr(4) 

ou=projects

project 

automountMap=auto_*

auto_*