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Preface

In the past three years , LDAP directories have risen from a relatively obscure offshoot of an equally obscure field to become one of the linchpins of modern computing on the Internet. Increasingly, LDAP directories are becoming the nerve center of an organization's computing infrastructure, providing naming, location, management, security, and other services that have traditionally been provided by network operating systems. Design and deployment of a successful LDAP directory service can be complex and challenging, yet until now little information was available explaining the ins and outs of this important task.

When two of us (Mark and Tim) finished writing a previous book, LDAP: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol in early 1997, we soon realized there was another, much bigger piece of the directory puzzle still to be addressed. The previous book was aimed at directory application programmers, but nothing similar was available to address the needs of directory decision makers , designers, and administrators. This book is aimed at that audience.

Recognizing the size of the task ahead of us and remembering the joys of giving up evenings and weekends for months at a time to meet deadlines for our first book, we quickly decided to expand our team. Just as quickly, we decided there was no one we'd rather share the fun with than our longtime friend and colleague, Gordon Good. Aside from being the third leg of the LDAP development team at the University of Michigan (U-M) and now a senior directory developer at Netscape, Gordon brought a wealth of system administration experience from his past life as a directory and email administrator and Web master for U-M. With Gordon on board, the three of us set about writing a book that we only half-jokingly referred to as the "LDAP Bible."



Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services,  2002 New Riders Publishing
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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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