Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Protocol

A Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Protocol is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

• See: Active Directory (AD) Service, Abstract Syntax Notation One, X.500, Application Protocol, Internet Protocol, Directory Service, Intranet, Email, Telephone Directory, Internet Engineering Task Force, Request For Comments.

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References

2020

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol Retrieved:2020-6-15.
  • The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Domain Directory services play an important role in developing intranet and Internet applications by allowing the sharing of information about users, systems, networks, services, and applications throughout the network. As, directory services may provide any organized set of records, often with a hierarchical structure, such as a corporate email directory. Similarly, a telephone directory is a list of subscribers with an address and a phone number. LDAP is specified in a series of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standard Track publications called Request for Comments (RFCs), using the description language ASN.1. The latest specification is Version 3, published as RFC 4511 (a road map to the technical specifications is provided by RFC4510). A common use of LDAP is to provide a central place to store usernames and passwords. This allows many different applications and services to connect to the LDAP server to validate users. LDAP is based on a simpler subset of the standards contained within the X.500 standard. Because of this relationship, LDAP is sometimes called X.500-lite. account.

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