KBTAG: kben10000109
URL: http://www.securityportal.com/lskb/10000100/kben10000109.html
Date created: 31/07/2000
Date modified: 07/08/2000
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Authors(s): Kurt Seifried seifried@securityportal.com
Topic: Overview of LDAP
Keywords: Network/DirectoryServices,
Network/Authentication
Lightweight directory access protocol seems to be the future of storing user information (passwords, home directories, phone numbers, etc.). Many products (ADS, NDS, etc.) support LDAP interfaces, making it important for Linux to support LDAP as it will be required to tie it into future enterprise networks.
OpenLDAP is a completely OpenSource (note it is not GPL) package that provides an LDAP server, replication server and utilities. You can get it from: http://www.openldap.org/.
The NSS LDAP Module is a reference implementation for Linux and Solaris. You can get it from: http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html.
ldap-client-cgi.py is a Python program that runs as a cgi and provides a www interface t an LDAP directory. You can get it: http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/ldap-client-cgi/.
A KDE based LDAP browsing tool with the ability to edit objects (basically an LDAP admin tool). You can get it at: http://www.mountpoint.ch/oliver/kldap/.
A GTK based LDAP client that can modify settings/etc. Available from: http://biot.com/gq/
A www based admin tool for LDAP. Available from: http://igloo.its.unimelb.edu.au/LDAPExplorer/.
A variety of Software Development Kits for LDAP, available from: http://www.mozilla.org/directory/
web2ldap
web2ldap is a web based ldap client. http://www.web2ldap.de/