Use of Existing Attributes

Server Suite uses existing Active Directory attributes to store data. For example, most Server Suite zones use Active Directory serviceConnectionPoint objects to store UNIX-specific data. The serviceConnectionPoint class is intended to hold information about services. The keywords attribute of the serviceConnectionPoint object holds name-value pairs that an Active Directory service can use to store its own attributes.

For example, if you were to use ldapsearch to filter the keywords attribute for a user's serviceConnectionPoint class in a Server Suite zone, you would see results similar to the following:

keywords: foreign:False
keywords: gid:800keywords: home:/home/jae
keywords: parentLink:S-1-5-21-3619765212-102450798-26543
keywords: shell:/bin/bash
keywords: uid:810
keywords: unixEnabled:True

Once you are familiar with the logical data model for Server Suite objects, refer to the appropriate zone-specific section for more detailed information about which Active Directory attributes are used to store data in a particular type of zone.