Michael Donnelly

If you work in the computing industry, the chances are good that you’ve heard of LDAP by now. Wondering what all the excitement is about? Want to know a little more about the underlying technology? You’ve come to the right place. This introduction – the first in a series of articles describing how to design, implement, and integrate an LDAP environment at your company – will familiarize you with the concepts behind LDAP while leaving the really hardcore details for later. Here, we’ll touch on the following topics:

• What is LDAP, anyway?
• When should you use LDAP to store your data?
• The structure of an LDAP directory tree
• Individual LDAP records
• Customizing your directory’s object classes
• An example of an individual LDAP entry
• LDAP replication
• Security and access control

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