Create Organizational Unit

Use this dialog box to enter information about a unit within an organization.

Name. Enter the name of the organizational unit.

Description. (Optional) Enter a description of the organizational unit.

Phone. (Optional) Enter a phone number where one can reach a contact (such as an administrative assistant) for the organizational unit.

Fax. (Optional) Enter a fax number where one can reach a contact for the organizational unit.

Alias. (Optional) Enter a nickname or acronym that you might use in place of the name you entered above.

Address. (Optional) Enter the street address where the organizational unit is located.

New organizational units are created using the organizational unit object class. The distinguished name for new organizational units is

ou=new organizational unit, ou=parent ou, o=base org, c=country

For example, if you create a new organization called Accounting within the organizational unit West Coast, and your Base DN is `o=Ace Industry, c=US`, then the new organizational unit's DN is

ou=Accounting, ou=West Coast, o=Ace Industry, c=US