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A Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) distinguished name (DN) is an LDAP entry that identifies and describes an authorized user for an LDAP server.Distinguished names consist of the name of the entry itself as well as the names, in order from bottom to top, of the objects above it in the directory. LDAP supports only one format for a distinguished name: typeful with commas as the delimiter. For example:CN=JRoss, OU=HR, O=Acme

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