serving the solutions day and night

Pages

Thursday, July 28, 2011

LDAP

  1. LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed server directory information services over an TCP/IP network.
  2. LDAP Servers - Netscape Directory Server, Microsoft Active Directory (AD), Novell Directory Services (NDS), Sun Directory Services (SDS), ucent's Internet Directory Server (IDS)
  3. LDAP uses a client server model, with clients sending LDAP request over TCP/IP to the server.
  4. Stores attribute based data information. Stores these entries in a hierachial structure (i.e., Directory Information Tree(DIT)), based on the unique identifier (Distinguish Name(DN)).
  5. Designed to be read data more than written, such as No transactions or rollback.