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Mastering OpenLDAP: Configuring, Securing and Integrating Directory Services
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Mastering OpenLDAP: Configuring, Securing and Integrating Directory Services

by Matt Butcher
August 2007
Beginner to intermediate
484 pages
11h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Common Uses of LDAP URLs

Throughout this book LDAP URLs have been used for various purposes.

In Chapter 4 we used LDAP URLs to perform searches in the authz-regexp directive in slapd.conf.

While a full LDAP URL, as we examined, can be a useful way to formulate a search, this is probably not the primary use of LDAP URLs. More commonly the LDAP URL syntax is simplified and used to capture only basic information.

Not all LDAP URLs are for Searching

In Chapter 3 we used LDAP URLs to connect to SLAPD from the ldapsearch utility, but we were not using the LDAP URL as a way to specify a search string. In many cases in fact, an LDAP URL may be used simply to provide protocol, host, and port information in one convenient string:

ldap://example.com:646

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