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Authored by: hamarkus on Wed, Apr 30 2008 at 12:36PM PDT

BTW, my ldap is only ou=..., o=..., and c=....
In other words, organisational unit (ou), organisation (o), and country (c).
What does CN and DC in the original hints stand for?

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Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Wed, Apr 30 2008 at 1:20PM PDT

I believe CN is "common name" and DN is "distinguished name"

Distinguished names are globally unique, IIRC.

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