Subject: Re: LDAP Servers
arthur@corlissfamily.org
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 12:58:22 AKST
On 11 Jan 2002, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>
> This is just a general question to see if I am correct or confused about
> these. My understanding of LDAP is a server that holds all company email
> and whatever personal data one chooses to divulge. All users then would
> be able to connect to this server and get all email addresses and phone
> numbers that have been supplied at one central locatation on the
> network. This would make keeping address books that are stored locally
> obsolete because all could connect to the server and this would hold the
> information, also a user could sync their personal address book with the
> server to keep their addresses current. Is this correct or am I missing
> it?
LDAP is exactly what the acronym is: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
It's not so much a replacement for your e-mail server, but that daemon can
work with LDAP for authentication and so on. The rest of your paragraph is a
legitimate use of an LDAP server.
--Arthur Corliss
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