Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 Installation Manual

Also see for DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1: Manual Deployment guide Configuration Reference Administrator's guide

Contents

82 Glossaryread-write replicaA replica that contains a master copy of directory information and can be updated. A server canhold any number of read-write replicas.relative distinguished nameSee RDN.replicationAct of copying directory trees or subtrees from supplier servers to consumer servers.replication agreementSet of configuration parameters that are stored on the supplier server and identify the databasesto replicate, the consumer servers to which the data is pushed, the times during which replicationcan occur, the DN and credentials used by the supplier to bind to the consumer, and how theconnection is secured.RFCRequest for Comments. Procedures or standards documents submitted to the Internet community.People can send comments on the technologies before they become accepted standards.roleAn entry grouping mechanism. Each role has members, which are the entries that possess therole.role-based attributesAttributes that appear on an entry because it possesses a particular role within an associated CoStemplate.rootThe most privileged user available on UNIX machines. The root user has complete access privi-leges to all files on the machine.root suffixThe parent of one or more sub suffixes. A directory tree can contain more than one root suffix.