Texas A&M University - Infrastructure Services

Directory Tree Structure

The TAMU Enterprise Directory supports the following major branches beneath the top-level Directory root entry "dc=tamu,dc=edu":

People

ou=people,dc=tamu,dc=edu

The 'people' branch contains all entries representing individual users affiliated with Texas A&M University.

The ldap entry for an individual is composed of standard LDAP objectclasses and of custom objectclasses specific to Texas A&M University.

Texas A&M University People Branch Object Class Hierarchy

Every entry in the 'people' branch is assigned the following object classes:

  • top
  • person
  • organizationalPerson
  • inetOrgPerson
  • inetLocalMailRecipient
  • tamuPerson
  • eduPerson
  • tamuEduPerson

Conditional object classes that may be assigned to an entry in the 'people' branch are:

  • tamuStudent The individual is present in the SIMS/EIS datafeed.
  • tamuEmployee The individual is present in the BPP datafeed.
  • tamuOtherFeed The individual is associated with HSC, HSCSTU, AMFD, RSFD, AFS, 12MAN, QATAR, USDA, ROTC.
  • tamuManualAddition The individual is not associated with any of the major systems of record and was manually added to the directory.
  • tamuEduNeoUser The individual meets the criteria to be provisioned with @neo.tamu.edu email aliases.
  • tamuEduZimbraUser The individual has been provisioned with a TAMU Email (Neo) account.
  • eduCourse The individual is an enrolled student, instructor of record, or teaching assistant in a current TAMU course offering.