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Creating and Maintaining Suffixes
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Figure 3-2
A Sample Directory Tree with Two Root Suffixes
You can also create root suffixes to exclude portions of your directory tree from
search operations. For example,
example.com
Corporation might want to exclude
their European office from a search on the general
example.com
Corporation
directory. To do this, they create two root suffixes. One root suffix corresponds to
the general
example.com
Corporation directory tree,
dc=example,dc=com
, and one
root suffix corresponds to the European branch of their directory tree,
l=europe,dc=example,dc=com
. From a client application’s perspective, the
directory tree looks as illustrated in Figure 3-3.
Figure 3-3
A Sample Directory Tree with a Root Suffix Off Limits to Search Operations
Searches performed by client applications on the
dc=example,dc=com
branch of
example.com
Corporation’s directory will not return entries from the
l=europe,dc=example,dc=com
branch of the directory, as it is a separate root
suffix.
If
example.com
Corporation decides that they want to include the entries in the
European branch of their directory tree in general searches, they would make the
European branch a sub suffix of the general branch. To do this, they create a root
suffix
example.com
Corporation,
dc=example,dc=com
, and then create a sub
suffix beneath it for their European directory entries,
l=europe,dc=example,dc=com
. From a client application’s perspective, the
directory tree would appear as illustrated in Figure 3-4.