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Naming objects in the organizational hierarchy

In general, when you create an object either in Object Manager or on the command line you can use any characters you want for the name of the object. However, it is best to avoid the backslash (\) character, the plus (+) character and apostrophes in object names as this can cause problems. If you use a forward slash in an object name, you must backslash protect (escape) it.

On the command line, if the name of an object includes spaces, make sure you enclose the name in quotes, for example ".../_ens/o=Indigo Insurance".

With the tarantella object command, any name in the ENS namespace is treated as case insensitive. When you create or rename an object, the case used is preserved. However, other tarantella commands, such as the webtopsession and emulatorsession commands, are case sensitive.

Using forward slashes

Secure Global Desktop interprets the forward slash as a part of the organizational hierarchy. For example, if you try to create an object with the relative name cn=a/b beneath o=organization, Secure Global Desktop will try to create an object called b within the o=organization/cn=a object. This fails because o=organization/cn=a does not exist.

If you must use a forward slash, you must backslash protect (escape) it. For example, to create an object with the relative name cn=a/b beneath o=organization, type cn=a\/b. This will create an object o=organization/cn=a/b.

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