On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:31 -0500, Alan McKay wrote: > This is the sort of thing that leaves me baffled : > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/admin/Creating_Directory_Entries.html > > It tells me the following, but does not really provide a context for > me as to why I'd want to do this or how this would relate to the > real-world problem I am trying to solve. I think I'm going to have > to pick up a copy of the LDAP book someone mentioned a while back in > another of my threads. Alan, Yes, RH documentation can be a little terse. Look at the fedora 389 directory server (aka fedora directory server) documentation: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation There is also a brief writeup on LDAP architecture there: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architecture Steve