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How Aliases Work

An alias entry has the object class of alias. An entries of class alias has the mandatory attribute aliasedObjectName, which contains the DN of the entry that the alias is pointing to.

Alias entries are leaves of the directory information tree. All other entries are object entries. Alias entries can point to object entries or other alias entries and thus provide an alternative name for the corresponding object.

The DSA resolves alias entries to the distinguished name of the object entry to which they point.

For more information, see Name Bindings and Aliases.