LDAP structure of VOs

I assume that you are a bit familiar with X.50X terminology, but in case you forgot, here is a short cheat sheet:

dc

domain component (like an internet domain, and you can't ``just choose'', there are standards organizations which hand these things out)

cn

common name, for example for a person this would be the normal ``name'' you'd use to look in a phone book

sn

surname (last name)

o

organization, for example NIKHEF or INFN

ou

organizational unit, for example the CT group at NIKHEF or the CNAF unit of INFN

The LDAP server runs on the internet host grid-vo.nikhef.nl. To access the VO directories, one has to connect to this host with the following information:

o=alice,dc=eu-datagrid,dc=org

where alice is the name of the organization of this VO, and could also be at the moment lhcb, atlas, or cms. This specifies that you want to connect to the directory of the organization alice of the domain eu-datagrid.org.