What is LDAP?

[StickyBit]

Folks,

I’ve worked with various protocols except LDAP. Could someone please explain what LDAP is, and provide an example of its usage.

Thanks.

 

[Apricot]

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol = LDAP

 

[Apricot]

Understanding LDAP

Abstract
.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a fast-growing technology
for accessing common directory information. LDAP has been embraced and
implemented in most network-oriented middleware. As an open,
vendor-neutral standard, LDAP provides an extendable architecture for
centralized storage and management of information that needs to be
available for today's distributed systems and services.

After a fast start, it can be assumed that LDAP has become the de facto
access method for directory information, much the same as the Domain
Name System (DNS) is used for IP address look-up on almost any system on
an intranet and on the Internet. LDAP is currently supported in most network
operating systems, groupware and even shrink-wrapped network
applications.

This redbook was written for those readers who need to understand the basic
principles and concepts of LDAP. Some background knowledge about
heterogeneous, distributed systems is assumed and is highly beneficial when
reading this book. Because this book is not meant to be an LDAP
implementation guide, it does not contain product-related or vendor-specific
information other than that used in examples.

or more Info:

http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/

or

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO.html

regards ph

 

[Butterfly123]

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a protocol that sits at an application layer in the OS and provides means for Single Sign On (SSO) where, access to lot many resources in the network is authenticated with a single username and password. LDAP has its own user/passwd authentication mechanism apart from OS, and is a hierarchical database of user/group info.

U can get lot of material on using LDAP on Solaris at docs.sun.com.

By the way, Solaris 8 has LDAP support by default. One has to enabl;e it while installing Solaris, or add the support later on.

Regds,

- Hemant
Networking and Systems Integration Group
Satyam Computer Services Ltd

 

[StickyBit]

Thanks for everyone’s support on the LDAP topic.

StickyBit