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.
LDAP Inheritance
When it comes down to it, much of the way that data in an LDAP system relates to one another is a matter of hierarchies, inheritance, and nesting. LDAP initially seems unusual to many people because it implements some object-oriented concepts in its design. This mainly comes from its use of classes, as we have previously discussed, and the availability of inheritance, which we will talk about now.