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LDAP Reference Implementation
Increasing numbers of email users, spam messages, and related user authentication and authorization concerns continue to make identity management a key concern for IT departments. These trends are pushing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP performance and workload requirements to grow as well. The combination of Sun Fire server technology and...
Tags: Reference Implementation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Reference Implementation, LDAP, Directory Services, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
White papers 2007-02-01

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LDAP: The Protocol
This paper describes the protocol elements, along with their semantics and encodings, of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP. LDAP provides access to distributed directory services that act in accordance with X.500 data and service models. These protocol elements are based on those described in the X.500 Directory Access Protocol...
Tags: Internet Society, X.500, LDAP, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-11-01
Configure the Address Book for LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP, also referred to as Internet directory services, is used to find e-mail addresses that are not in a local Outlook address book or a corporate-wide directory such as the Global Address List. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP: A protocol that provides access to Internet...
Tags: LDAP Server, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Service, LDAP, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-12-01
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Syntaxes and Matching Rules
Each attribute stored in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP directory, and whose values may be transferred in the LDAP protocol, has a defined syntax, which constrains the structure and format of its values. The comparison semantics for values of a syntax are not part of the syntax definition but...
Tags: Syntax, LDAP, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-10-07
Why Do ISPs Need LDAP?
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is a widely used Internet Standard Protocol for accessing a directory. LDAP also defines the "Information model" of the directory being accessed. This white paper looks at why an Internet Service Provider ISP or Mobile Provider would want to use LDAP and the benefits to...
Tags: LDAP, Directory Services, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Enterprise Software, Software, Internet
White papers 2007-01-01
Understanding LDAP Design and Implementation
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP is a fast growing technology for accessing common directory information. LDAP has been embraced and implemented in most network-oriented middleware. As an open, vendor-neutral standard, LDAP provides an extendable architecture for centralized storage and management of information that needs to be available for today's distributed...
Tags: LDAP, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-06-01
Novell eDirectory Vs. Microsoft Active Directory
If you are evaluating which Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP directory will best address your business needs, selecting the right one is no trivial task. Given the numerous offerings available, it can be difficult to determine which directory is best suited to the unique needs of your organization. This paper...
Tags: Novell Inc., Novell eDirectory, Microsoft Corp., Directory Services, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, LDAP, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-04-30
LDAP: Uniform Resource Locator
This paper describes a format for a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP Uniform Resource Locator URL. An LDAP URL describes an LDAP search operation that is used to retrieve information from an LDAP directory, or, in the context of an LDAP referral or reference, an LDAP URL describes a service...
Tags: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Uniform Resource Locator, LDAP, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-11-16
Tomcat and OpenLDAP, From Configuration to Application
Almost all Java web applications require some type of secured access, and this is usually addressed via a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP directory. As a developer, it is advantageous to have a local OpenLDAP directory and web container to enhance productivity. Configuring Tomcat to connect to an OpenLDAP directory...
Tags: OpenLDAP, Apache Tomcat, Directory Services, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2005-05-31
Using Active Directory as Part of a Distributed Directory
There are many situations that require large distributed directories using LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and/or X.500, such as Government, Military and Aviation. Organizations building these distributed directories will often be making use of Microsoft Active Directory AD. AD provides a number of key functions in a Microsoft server network,...
Tags: Directory, Advertisement, Isode, LDAP, Directory Services, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers
Configuring an AIX Client System for User Authentication and Management Through LDAP
This paper focuses on configuring AIX systems as clients of directory servers, both IBM Directory servers and third party LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol servers, to provide readers with a complete picture of how to configure and exploit the AIX LDAP security solution. AIX first implemented a LDAP security load...
Tags: User Authentication, IBM AIX, Client System, LDAP, Directory Services, UNIX, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-03-24
Introduction to Active Directory Application Mode
The Active Directory directory service in Microsoft Windows 2000 is the fastest growing directory service for intranets and extranets as a result of its rich integration of directory support and security, scalability, and native Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP support. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 builds on that success by supporting...
Tags: Directory Service, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Active Directory Application Mode, Directory Services, LDAP, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems
White papers 2003-11-01
Automated Migration and Provisioning Tools Reduce Cost of Migrating to Active Directory and Simplify Training and Troubleshooting
The Cisco Systems IT group traditionally maintained separate NOS and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP directories for each application server, including mail servers, MeetingMaker calendar servers, TACACS+ authentication servers,, Oracle applications, and Macintosh and Windows desktops. Cisco developers, in turn, had to write different code for every directory that their...
Tags: Provisioning, Migration, Training, Cisco Systems Inc., LDAP, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies 2007-12-18
Integration of a NetApp Storage System With a Unix Based LDAP Server
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP is a common protocol interface to Network Directory Services NDS. Widely deployed NDSs are Domain Name Service DNS, NIS Network Information Service, etc. They provide the clients with information such as host IPs, usernames, passwords, home directories, etc. LDAP is a network protocol for...
Tags: LDAP Server, Network, Server, Storage System, Unix, NetApp, Integration, LDAP, Directory Services, Storage, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
White papers 2006-04-01
Managing application directory partitions in Active Directory
Although the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory closelymimics the Windows 2000 Active Directory, Windows Server 2003 does offer a fewActive Directory features that are not present in Windows 2000. One suchfeature is the ability to host application partitions. As you probably know, Active Directory is really nothingmore than a distributed,...
Tags: application directory, Brien M. Posey MCSE, directory partition, domain controller, LDAP, Microsoft Windows Active Directory
Technical articles 2005-06-22
Interactive LDAP in C/C++ Interpreter
This paper describes how to use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP interactively with a C/C++ interpreter through the Ch LDAP package. Ch is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter that provide a superset of C. Ch LDAP is an open source binding to the open source OpenLDAP C APL, and can...
Tags: University Of California, Ch, LDAP, C/C++, Directory Services, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development
White papers 2004-08-24
Tech Tip: Cross-platform authenticate with OpenLDAP
OpenLDAP is a robust Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP implementation for Linux that ships with most Linux distributions. LDAP is very similar to Active Directory in that it's a database. However, LDAP is more of a read-only (or write-little) database, which differentiates it...
Tags: Guest Contributor, Linux Tips Newsletter, OpenLDAP, Authentication, LDAP, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
Technical articles 2003-12-08
A Protocol Reference Model for Next-Generation Networks
This paper describes a generic protocol "Reference model" for the Next-Generation Network NGN functional architecture that clarifies the relationship of the proposed protocols to the NGN functional blocks. It also discusses the relationship between the control and management capabilities, and seeks to clarify the distinctions between them, where appropriate. It...
Tags: Protocol, Cisco Systems Inc.
White papers 2007-01-01
Cryptanalysis of Microsoft's Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol PPTP is used to secure PPP connections over TCP/IP links. In this paper we analyze Microsoft's Windows NT implementation of PPTP. We show how to break both the challenge/response authentication protocol Microsoft CHAP and the RC4 encryption protocol MPPE, as well...
Tags: PPTP, Microsoft Corp., VPNs, Network Security, Networking
White papers
The LDAP Standard Specification
In June 2006, 10 new LDAP RFCs were published (RFCs 4510-4519) to provide a new LDAPv3 (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol version 3) specification and to replace RFC 2251 and a number of related specifications. The primary goal of this paper is to guide those with some basic knowledge of LDAP.
Tags: Specification, Isode, LDAP, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-01-01
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