Initially known as a subset of X.500, LDAP has been adopted by the industry as its chosen native protocol for directory access, with vast global prospects. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ...

Suppose you have an Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) server and a bunch of users, but you don't want to give each user a shell account on the server. You'd rather use some sort of central ...

Spring LDAP is a Spring-based framework that simplifies LDAP programming on the Java platform. In this step-by-step guide to using Spring LDAP you will learn how the framework handles the low-level ...

A new security hole has been found in OS X Lion where usernames can be authenticated without providing a password on systems bound to LDAP servers. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac ...

From a software point of view, this is exactly what the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) does. This technology is the key to creating better enterprise networks. It’s a simple protocol ...

All directories “basically serve as a way for applications to look up other applications, for people to look up other applications or resources, or for managers to look up reservations or resources,” ...