is While there are several standards for directories, LDAP’s mindshare is ballooning now. Such disparate vendors as Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Novell, and Netscape support LDAP. Moreover, the number of ...

Information inside an LDAP directory is stored in "entries". Each entry is a collection of attributes that have a globally unique Distinguished Name (DN), which contain a type and one or more values.

Many readers have used our December 2002 article, “OpenLDAP Everywhere”, to achieve unified login company-wide. Since then, OpenLDAP and Linux have progressed. Here, we demonstrate the use of OpenLDAP ...