See RFC2253 for definition of LDAP RDN.
Key parts being
In X.501 [2] the ASN.1 structure of distinguished name is defined as:
DistinguishedName ::= RDNSequence
RDNSequence ::= SEQUENCE OF RelativeDistinguishedName
RelativeDistinguishedName ::= SET SIZE (1..MAX) OF
AttributeTypeAndValue
AttributeTypeAndValue ::= SEQUENCE {
type AttributeType,
value AttributeValue }
When converting from an ASN.1 RelativeDistinguishedName to a string,
the output consists of the string encodings of each
AttributeTypeAndValue (according to 2.3), in any order.
Where there is a multi-valued RDN, the outputs from adjoining
AttributeTypeAndValues are separated by a plus ('+' ASCII 43)
character.
Basically, every piece separated by a comma or semicolon (i.e. not quoted or
escaped) is an RDN.
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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Maximum distinguished name length?
Coleman, Hunter wrote:
>>From AD's perspective, the RDN is "Some User" (or "cn=Some User"). It
> does not include anything beyond that, such as OU or container paths.
OK, I think that clears it up for me. From the Novell eDirectory point of
view, given that you can have a context handle set to any arbitrary location
in the tree, an RDN is simply the portion of the object's DN that is
relative to the current context. Think of it as being like having a current
working directory and referring to folders & files via relative file paths
instead of absolute file paths. AD lacks the concept of a current context
and so I can see how an RDN is defined differently w.r.t. AD.
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