Conclusion

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This chapter covered many aspects of LDAP without going into the details. The scope was simply to introduce some key concepts and present examples of LDAP at work so that the reader could begin using basic LDAP commands. The best way to learn how to use new software is to install it and then play around with it. Armed with the basic concepts presented here in Chapter 2, we are ready to delve further into the details covered in Chapter 3, a chapter of pure theory explaining how LDAP works.

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