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Novell Directory Services. Novell's scheme for creating corporate-wide disk directories running on a variety of hardware. Node are classified in the following ways:

T=Tree specifically "[Root]"
C=Country
O=Organization
L=Locality
OU=Organizational Unit
CN=Common Name

In the "[Root]" of each Tree there can exist only two container object types, "O" and "C" (it's the start of the hierarchy). The "OU" or "C" types can exist within "O" types, and "OU" types can contain additional "OU" types for an even deeper structure. The "C" may contain "O" or "L" types, and an "L" type may contain additional "OU" or "L" types, and so on. Each of these containers, except for the "T" type, may contain "CN" types which represent users, groups, printers, servers, DNS records, databases, software applications, security keys, profile objects, and a variety of many other object types. Even your login name for FTP has this structure.

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