Overview#

Name Form covers the many forms of Names.

Name Form may also be classified as:

• First Name
• Last Name

Name Form LDAP#

Name Form (NameForms) are within the LDAP Schema, Name Form "specifies a permissible RDN for entries of a particular STRUCTURAL object class. Name Form Description specify the details of the NameForms

How Name Form Are Used#

Name Form state succinctly which attribute Types must be used in forming the RDNs of entries. DIT Structure Rules specify which entries may be superior to other entries, and hence control the way that RDNs are added together to make distinguished names (DNs).

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Glossary Of LDAP And Directory Terminology
• Identifier
• LDAP Schema Element Type
• NameForms
• OID
• STRUCTURAL
• Schema Checking
• Structural ObjectClass
• SubschemaSubentry
• Understanding Name Forms

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• [#1] - Understanding DIT - based on information obtained Name Form