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referential integrity Mechanism that ensures that relationships between related entries
are maintained within the directory.
referral (1) When a server receives a search or update request from an LDAP
client that it cannot process, it usually sends back to the client a
pointer to the LDAP sever that can process the request.
(2) In the context of replication, when a read-only replica receives
an update request, it forwards it to the server that holds the
corresponding read-write replica. This forwarding process is called a
referral.
relative distinguished name See RDN.
replica A database that participates in replication.
replica-initiated replication Replication configuration where replica servers, either hub or
consumer servers, pull directory data from supplier servers. This
method is available only for legacy replication.
replication Act of copying directory trees or subtrees from supplier servers to
replica servers.
replication agreement Set of configuration parameters that are stored on the supplier server
and identify the databases to replicate, the replica servers to which
the data is pushed, the times during which replication can occur, the
DN and credentials used by the supplier to bind to the consumer, and
how the connection is secured.
RFC Request for Comments. Procedures or standards documents
submitted to the Internet community. People can send comments on
the technologies before they become accepted standards.
role An entry grouping mechanism. Each role has members, which are the
entries that possess the role.
role-based attributes Attributes that appear on an entry because it possesses a particular
role within an associated CoS template.
root The most privileged user available on Unix machines. The root user
has complete access privileges to all files on the machine.
root suffix The parent of one or more sub suffixes. A directory tree can contain
more than one root suffix.
S
SASL An authentication framework for clients as they attempt to bind to a
directory. Also Simple Authentication and Security Layer .
schema Definitions describing what types of information can be stored as
entries in the directory. When information that does not match the
schema is stored in the directory, clients attempting to access the
directory may be unable to display the proper results.