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4. Examples

  1. Examples

This notation is designed to be convenient for common forms of name. This section gives a few examples of distinguished names written using this notation. First is a name containing three relative distinguished names (RDNs):

  UID=jsmith,DC=example,DC=net

Here is an example of a name containing three RDNs, in which the first RDN is multi-valued:

  OU=Sales+CN=J.  Smith,DC=example,DC=net

This example shows the method of escaping of a special characters appearing in a common name:

  CN=James \"Jim\" Smith\, III,DC=example,DC=net

The following shows the method for encoding a value that contains a carriage return character:

  CN=Before\0dAfter,DC=example,DC=net

In this RDN example, the type in the RDN is unrecognized, and the value is the BER encoding of an OCTET STRING containing two octets, 0x48 and 0x69.

Zeilenga Standards Track [Page 7]

RFC 4514 LDAP: Distinguished Names June 2006

  1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.0=#04024869

Finally, this example shows an RDN whose commonName value consists of 5 letters:

  Unicode Character                Code       UTF-8   Escaped
  -------------------------------  ------     ------  --------
  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L           U+004C     0x4C    L
  LATIN SMALL LETTER U             U+0075     0x75    u
  LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON  U+010D     0xC48D  \C4\8D
  LATIN SMALL LETTER I             U+0069     0x69    i
  LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE  U+0107     0xC487  \C4\87

This could be encoded in printable ASCII [ASCII] (useful for debugging purposes) as:

  CN=Lu\C4\8Di\C4\87