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  <p><b>Network of LDAP servers</b></p>
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    <p>In the distributed network of Metacat servers, network of LDAP servers
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      is implemented as a distributed storage of Metacat's users.
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      Any Metacat instance running on particular site is configured to use 
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      certain LDAP instance both usually running on the same host.
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      Several Metacat instances can use one LDAP instance. </p>
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      The distributed scheme of LDAP servers represents a hierarchy of nodes
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      where in the leaves are the particular users used by the Metacat servers 
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      for authentication.
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      The LDAP tree starts from the root context for the Knowledge 
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      Network of Biocomplexity.:
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      <pre>      dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org </pre>
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      The nodes on the second level represent the subtrees of the major Metacat
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      sites such as NCEAS, LTER, etc.:  </p>
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      o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org <br>
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      or <br>
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      o=LTER,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org </pre>
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      Look at the example for the
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<a target="_top" href="entries-init.ldif">initial entries of KNB main tree</a>
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      . <br><br>
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      The third level contains the nodes of the particular users and groups.
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      Users can be organized in groups. This allow Metacat to control access 
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      to a group of users.
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<pre>Definition of KNB development group at NCEAS:
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      dn: cn=knb-dev,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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      objectClass: top
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      objectclass: groupOfUniqueNames
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      cn: knb-dev
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      uniqueMember: uid=jones,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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      uniqueMember: uid=bojilova,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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      uniqueMember: uid=berkley,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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      uniqueMember: uid=higgins,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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      uniqueMember: uid=harris,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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      description: KNB development group at NCEAS </pre>
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      Look at the example for a 
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      <a target="_top" href="entries-groups.ldif">group entry in KNB</a>.
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<pre>Definition of a user from NCEAS subtree:
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      dn: uid=bojilova,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
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      objectClass: top
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      objectclass: person
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      objectClass: organizationalPerson
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      objectClass: inetOrgPerson
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      objectclass: uidObject
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      uid: bojilova
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      cn: Jivka Bojilova
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      sn: Bojilova
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      givenName: Jivka Bojilova
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      title: Data Integration Developer </pre>
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      Look at the example for <a target="_top" href="entries-users.ldif">
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      user entries in KNB</a>.<br><br>
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      Any LDAP subtree can reside on remote site. In that case the main tree holds
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      referrals to all remotely running LDAP servers.
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      Look at the example for <a target="_top" href="entries-refs.ldif">
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      referral entries in KNB</a>.<br><br>
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