Showing posts with label Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Show all posts

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is generally referred to as LDAP. It is based on the X.500 standard, but much simpler and can be customized. Different with X.500, LDAP supports TCP / IP, which is access to Internet is necessary. LDAP in the core specification are defined in the RFC, all LDAP related RFC can be found in the LDAPman RFC website.
LDAP Introduction
Simply put, LDAP is a person or resources are concentrated on the static data, quick way.
 LDAP is used to publish directory information to many different resources to the agreement. Usually it is used as a centralized address book to use, but according to the needs of the organizers, it can do more powerful.