I thought so too ..., 
Thank you all for your answers 

Regards, 
Mariusz


2014-05-22 18:01 GMT+02:00 Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>:


> On May 22, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Mike Jackson <mj@netauth.com> wrote:
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> Quoting Artur Nike <opalsie@gmail.com>:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Is the suffix  dc=example,dc=com in tree is a valid rdn ?
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> A suffix is an RDN of it's own entry because it sits at the root and is relative to itself. However, if your suffix was dc=com, and you created a subentry called dc=example, then it's a different story. So, it just depends on how you construct your suffix.
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>> and whether the drawing
>> http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ch2/dit-dn-rdn.pngis correct?
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> All in all, everything I have seen in zytrax is high quality info

Then you must not read their LDAP bits very closely. They are quite often dead wrong in what they have online and the best thing for everyone would be for their site to go offline.

--Quanah