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certificate A collection of data that associates the public keys of a network user
with their DN in the directory. The certificate is stored in the directory
as user object attributes.
Certificate Authority Company or organization that sells and issues authentication
certificates. You may purchase an authentication certificate from a
Certification Authority that you trust. Also known as a CA.
CGI Common Gateway Interface. An interface for external programs to
communicate with the HTTP server. Programs written to use CGI are
called CGI programs or CGI scripts and can be written in many of the
common programming languages. CGI programs handle forms or
perform output parsing that is not done by the server itself.
chaining A method for relaying requests to another server. Results for the
request are collected, compiled, and then returned to the client.
changelog A changelog is a record that describes the modifications that have
occurred on a replica. The supplier server then replays these
modifications on the replicas stored on replica servers or on other
masters, in the case of multi-master replication.
character type Distinguishes alphabetic characters from numeric or other characters
and the mapping of upper-case to lower-case letters.
ciphertext Encrypted information that cannot be read by anyone without the
proper key to decrypt the information.
class definition Specifies the information needed to create an instance of a particular
object and determines how the object works in relation to other
objects in the directory.
class of service See CoS.
classic CoS A classic CoS identifies the template entry by both its DN and the
value of one of the target entry's attributes.
client See LDAP client.
code page An internal table used by a locale in the context of the
internationalization plug-in that the operating system uses to relate
keyboard keys to character font screen displays.
collation order Provides language and cultural-specific information about how the
characters of a given language are to be sorted. This information
might include the sequence of letters in the alphabet or how to
compare letters with accents to letters without accents.
consumer Server containing replicated directory trees or subtrees from a
supplier server.
consumer server In the context of replication, a server that holds a replica that is copied
from a different server is called a consumer for that replica.