Glossary

BER

Basic Encoding Rules. A set of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) encoding rules that are used to create the binary representation of LDAP protocol messages “on the wire”.

DIT
DITs

Directory Information Tree. A tree-like representation of entries an LDAP service presents to clients.

LDIF

The LDAP Data Interchange Format. A plain text data format that can represent directory content or an update request.