Brenda's full NDS name would be the name held by her User object's CN attribute combined with the names of its parent containers. The table below shows the naming attributes for required and commonly used NDS objects. When an object has more than one naming attribute, that object can be named by any one of the naming attributes, or by a combination of the naming attributes. These names are shown in typeful form. Conclusion To summarize, attributes hold data that describes and identifies a directory object.
Some attributes are mandatory and some are optional.
If an attribute is mandatory, you must enter a value for it when you create the object. You can enter values for optional attributes either when you create the object, or later. All objects also have at least one naming attribute. This is the attribute that names the object and helps you locate it in the NDS tree.