Understanding LDAP - Design and Implementation

Group and role management

This chapter discusses the way groups and roles are managed in the directory server. The groups/roles are the easiest means of segregating users with like profiles/privileges. For example, if you want to give a common permission to a set of 100 users then it would be difficult if you try manipulating access on an individual basis. On the other hand if you create a group with these 100 users as its members and assign the permissions you want to the group, things would be much more easier. On same lines you can create a ...