Texas A&M University - Infrastructure Services

Display Name (displayName)

Definition: Account owner's preferred name.
Attribute Name: 'displayName'
OID: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.241
URN: urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.241
Object Class: inetOrgPerson
Required: no
Multiple Values: Single-valued
Format: Directory String
Controlled Vocabulary: not applicable
Source: Defined by account owner in Directory Edit application.
Indexing: Presence (pres): Improves searches for entries that contain the indexed attribute.
Equality (eq): Improves searches for entries that contain an attribute that is set to a specific value.
Substring (sub): Improves searches for entries that contain a specified substring.
Search Syntax: EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
Access: Account owner, authenticated users, and nonauthenticated (anonymous) users have read access.
Usage: email clients using LDAP as address book
Example(s): Joe College