Absolutely right. The whole point of Distinguished Names is that they
can be used to distinguish one entry from another with no ambiguity.
>The trouble is that this makes DNs ugly and I hate it, is there a better
>way?
The only alternative is to add levels of hierachy so that clashes are
less likely in each department. There is still no guarantee that all
names in a department will be unique, so some organisations have taken
the approach of *always* adding a unique ID code to the DN.
Perhaps your efforts should be directed to getting user interface
builders to display such multi-valued DNs in an acceptable form :-)
Doesn't BT have an X.500 directory already?
Andrew
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