commonName Attribute

Alternate name: cn

Summary: cis, multi-valued, base schema

Purpose: Specifies the full name of the object described by the entry.

Subscriber and administrator entries use the form Firstname Lastname (uid). For example, user John Smith who uses the login name jsmith would have an entry in the directory. Its commonName attribute would contain the value John Smith (jsmith).

The ispManagedService object class uses this attribute for the user-friendly name displayed in the Sun Internet Administrator GUI.