developed at the University of Michigan as a front-end to the more complex ITU-T X.500 directory protocol, formalized in 1995 in RFC 1777. It includes five models: data, organization, security, function and topology. It is useful for a wide range of uses including simple dialing directories and indexing large databases.
A more easily implemented subset of the X.500 DAP standard for directory services.
A set of protocols for accessing information directories.
A protocol designed for simple applications, such as browsers, to access the X.500 directory resources
A directory service backed by Netscape and other vendors, designed to identify all network resources to clients using a subset of the X.500 directory standard. LDAP is used to query and receive information from standards based directories.
A protocol (defined in RFC 1777 and RFC 2251) for user information suitable for address books or phone books, based on the OSI X.500 standard.
This protocol provides access for management and browser applications that provide read/write interactive access to the X.500 Directory. See also: X.500. [Source: RFC1983
A client-server protocol for accessing a directory service. It runs over TCP and can be used to access a stand-alone LDAP directory service or to access a directory service back-ended by X.509.
An Internet standard for Internet telephony products that access directory servers.
A directory service protocol that runs directly over TCP/IP and is the primary access protocol for the Active Directory. The protocol defines how a directory client can access information on a directory server.
A technology that provides access to X.500 for PCs.
An open standard for programs to store and retrieve names, addresses, email, phone numbers, and other information from an online directory. LDAP is used to build online directories on intranet networks, as well as Internet-based online directories. With LDAP support, Netscape Communicator users can search for and add corporate and Internet addresses to their Personal Address Book.
Enables LDAP clients to access directory information from an Exchange directory.
An open standard for storing and retrieving people's names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and other information. The Windows Address Book supports LDAP for accessing directory services, and it comes with built-in access to several popular directory services. Administrators can specify an additional service for their users.
It is a protocol for accessing information directories such as organizations, individuals, phone numbers, and addresses. It is based on the X.500 directory protocols, but it is simpler, and unlike X.500, it supports TCP/IP for Internet usage. The standards are specified in RFC 1777.
An open standard for remote directory access, defined in RFC 1777, "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol."
An open protocol that uses TCP/IP to provide access to directories that support an X.500 model and that does not incur the resource requirements of the more complex X.500 Directory Access Protocol (DAP). For example, LDAP can be used to locate people, organizations, and other resources in an Internet or intranet directory.
In TCP/IP, a protocol that enables users to locate people, organizations, and other resources in an Internet directory or intranet directory.
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is a technology that originated from the development of X.500 protocol specifications and implementations. LDAP was designed as a means of rapidly searching through X.500 information. Later LDAP was adapted as an engine that could drive its own directory database. LDAP is not a database per se; rather it is a technology that enables high-volume search and locate activity from clients that wish to obtain simply defined information about a subset of records that are stored in a database. LDAP does not have a particularly efficient mechanism for storing records in the database, and it has no concept of transaction processing nor of mechanisms for preserving data consistency. LDAP is premised around the notion that the search and read activity far outweigh any need to add, delete, or modify records. LDAP does provide a means for replication of the database to keep slave servers up to date with a master. It also has built-in capability to handle external references and deferral.
LDAP provides access to X.500 directory services. These services can be a standalone part of a distribution service. An LDAP client library is available with C5 operating system that provides programmatic access to the LDAP.
A protocol for accessing directory services.
An industry standard open client/server protocol for accessing a directory service, such as Active Directory or Novell Directory Services. It is a simplified...
Used for directories providing naming, location, management, security, and other services for Internet networking, abbreviated as LDAP.
A Directory Access Protocol (DAP) specified by IETF RFC 1487.
LDAP is a specification for a client–server protocol to retrieve and manage directory information.
Lightweight directory access protocol is based on the standards contained within the X.500 standard, but is significantly simpler. And unlike X.500, LDAP supports TCP/IP, which is necessary for any type of Internet access.
A protocol for storing information such as a list of contacts. LDAP directories are searchable and can store data for several thousand individuals.
A directory service protocol designed to run over TCP/IP and across multiple platforms. LDAP is a simplified version of Directory Access Protocol (DAP), used to access X.500 directories. LDAP is under IETF change control and has evolved to meet Internet requirements.
LDAP is a software protocol that allows anyone to locate organizations, individuals, and other resources (files, devices, or services) on the Internet or on a corporate intranet.
The primary access protocol for Active Directory. LDAP is an industry-standard protocol, established by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), that allows users to query and update information in a directory service. Active Directory supports both LDAP version 2 and LDAP version 3. See also: Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM); directory service
LDAP is a protocol that provides an online, fully indexed, fast-access white-pages directory service developed and freely distributed by the Regents of the University of Michigan. LDAP is included in EIMS directory server.
A standard, extensible directory access protocol. It is a common language that LDAP clients and servers use to communicate. The framework of design conventions supporting industry-standard directory products, such as the Oracle Internet Directory.
A protocol "designed to provide access to the X.500 Directory while not incurring the resource requirements of the Directory Access Protocol" [ RFC 2559]. To translate: the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to communicate with the ISO/OSI directory service. Broadly defined, a directory is a "special purpose [database], usually containing typed information. " An example of an Internet-based directory is the Domain Name Service (DNS). A directory accessed via LDAP, however, can contain any kind of information, unlike the special-purpose DNS directory. We refer to a directory accessible via LDAP as an LDAP server. An LDAP server is used as a Registration Agent (RA) by the Netscape CA. All valid certificates are entered into an associated LDAP server, and are removed when then are revoked. Thus one can check if a certificate has been revoked by looking it up in the CA's LDAP server. If it is not found, it is assumed to have been revoked.
A protocol that provides access for management and browser applications that provide read/write interactive access to the X.500 compatible directories.
( LDAP) A standard way to create a directory of things, people,and services. LDAP is a simplified version of the x500 directory service. LDAP is one of those things that seems simple, but may be profoundly important. For references see LDAP references.
A protocol that supports access and search operations on directories containing information such as names, phone numbers, and addresses across otherwise incompatible systems over the Internet. PGP Universal supports synchronizing with an existing LDAP directory.
A standard, extensible set of conventions specifying communication between clients and servers across TCP/IP network connections. See also See also SLAPD..
The primary access protocol for Active Directory. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) version 3 is defined by a set of Proposed Standard documents in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC 2251. See also: Active Directory; Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); protocol
In computer networking, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP , is a networking protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP.