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Acronym for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

A protocol for accessing heirachial data. Kinda like SQL except it has "fixed" Schema's (you can define your own, but not quite as easily as you do in SQL).

LDAP is (often) optimised for reading data, not read/write, so it's often used for directories.

Netware's NDS speaks LDAP, Microsofts ActiveDirectory speaks LDAP. It's just a protocol.

DanielLawson is our local LDAP guru. If you've got the problem, he's got the solution :)

See LDAPNotes for more information


CategoryProtocols