Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services, Second Edition
by Timothy A. Howes - Ph.D., Mark C. Smith, Gordon S. Good
Preface
In the past decade, LDAP directories have risen from a relatively obscure offshoot of an equally obscure field to become one of the linchpins of modern computing. Increasingly, LDAP directories are becoming the nerve center of an organization's computing infrastructure, providing naming, location, management, security, and other services that have traditionally been provided by network operating systems. Design and deployment of a successful LDAP directory service can be complex and challenging, yet little information is available explaining the ins and outs of this important task.
When two of us (Mark and Tim) finished writing a previous book, LDAP: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
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