The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) provides an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC-based standard to store user , organizational, and application configuration information for any LDAP-compliant client to access. With the proliferation of HTML-based products and sites in recent years , LDAP has become the standard directory access protocol for many application and operating system vendors , including Netscape, Entrust, and Microsoft. In this chapter, you will learn how LDAP fits into the enterprise computing model and how ADSI and LDAP are related . Specifically, this chapter briefly examines LDAP technology and terminology and discusses available LDAP APIs, as well as several commercial products that employ LDAP directories. In addition, you will learn how to:
You will also take a look at the installation of Netscape's Directory Server product and the Airius sample directory in a hands-on exercise. From this exercise, you will establish a common namespace, which will enable you to test the code segments found throughout the chapter on the sample directory. |
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