Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
To understand Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) you must first understand directory services. This article defines directory services and how LDAP structures the entries in a directory service. Pay attention to the basic LDAP components such as attributes, entries, and data information trees (DITs). How does LDAP organize data, and what is LDAP inheritance? Note that there are some variations in LDAP protocols.
Defining LDAP Data Components
In the last section, we discussed how data is represented within an LDAP system. However, we must also talk about how the components that store data are defined. For instance, we mentioned that data must match the type defined for each attribute. Where do these definitions come from? Let’s start from the bottom in terms of complexity again and work our way up.