Hope that helps,
Russ
At 08:19 AM -0700 8/1/96, Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk wrote:
>>I am proceeding on the assumption that I must disambiguate the DN by
>>introducing extra attributes, e.g:
>>
>>dn: uid=<unique code>, cn=J Soap, o=BT plc, c=gb
>
>Absolutely right. The whole point of Distinguished Names is that they
>can be used to distinguish one entry from another with no ambiguity.
>
>>The trouble is that this makes DNs ugly and I hate it, is there a better
>>way?
>
>The only alternative is to add levels of hierachy so that clashes are
>less likely in each department. There is still no guarantee that all
>names in a department will be unique, so some organisations have taken
>the approach of *always* adding a unique ID code to the DN.
>
>Perhaps your efforts should be directed to getting user interface
>builders to display such multi-valued DNs in an acceptable form :-)
>
>Doesn't BT have an X.500 directory already?
>
>Andrew
>
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