LDAP - People OU

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LDAP People OU (ou=people,dc=berkeley,dc=edu)

The 'people' branch (ou=people,dc=berkeley,dc=edu) of the CalNet Directory contains all LDAP entries representing students, staff, and affiliates of the University of California, Berkeley.

The complete representation of an individual in the CalNet Directory consists of a collection of LDAP entries composed of standard LDAP objectclasses and of custom objectclasses specific to the Berkeley Campus.

Population Details

Please see the links below for details on how data is represented in LDAP for specific campus populations:


Primary LDAP Person Entry

Information for people affiliated with the Berkeley campus is pulled from authoritative data sources, combined, and represented in the central CalNet Directory as a primary (parent) LDAP entry. For each campus user, there will be one primary LDAP "person" (or "people") entry representing the user.

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