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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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The History of LDAP and OpenLDAP

At first glance, the term LDAP seems misleading. When we talk, for instance, about the primary protocol for the web, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), we are talking about the way that web applications transfer information across the network. We are not talking about the format of the data that is moved across the network, nor are we talking about how that data is stored on or retrieved from the server.

But when we talk about LDAP, we are usually talking not only about the network protocol, but about a particular kind of server that stores data of a well-defined format inside of a special database. There is a historical reason for this seemingly misleading name.

Originally, LDAP was just a network protocol used ...

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