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Directory Drivers

In planning for these extranet applications, having several drivers led the designers to conclude that a directory service was essential to the deployment. The following requirements led them to this conclusion:

  • Extranet applications must be manageable though delegation ”   Because there are over 800 retailers, each of which has several employees authorized to sell HugeCo products, it is expected that there will be at least several thousand user entries in the database at any time. To further complicate the management of this user information, each retailer is an independent business with its own employees . Clearly, to make it possible to manage user information, the creation, deletion, and maintenance of user account information must be delegated to the individual retailers.

  • User information must be shared among multiple applications ”   There are several different extranet applications (order entry, personalized product notice generation, and so on) that would comprise the extranet suite, each of which needs to authenticate users and store customization information. Because a directory provides a standard method for storing and accessing this information over the network, it would make sense to place shared user information in a directory.



Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services,  2002 New Riders Publishing
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Index terms contained in this section

applications
         extranet
                    HugeCo case study
case studies
         HugeCo
                    managing extranet applications
                    sharing user information
directories
         case studies
                    HugeCo 2nd
extranets
         HugeCo case study
                    managing applications
                    sharing user information
HugeCo case study
          managing extranet applications
          sharing user information
sharing
         user information
                    HugeCo case study
users
         sharing information
                    HugeCo case study

2002, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.



Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services
Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0672323168
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1997
Pages: 245

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