Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators (O'Reilly)

[Posted October 23, 2002 by cook]

Æleen Frisch writes about LDAP, the Light weight Directory Access Protocol, on O'Reilly. "LDAP has been a hot new topic in system administration for several years now. LDAP provides a directory service which can be used for storing and querying information about the individuals in an organization (e.g., employees). The range of information that can be made available in this way is quite broad: traditional telephone or other institutional directory data (office location, phone numbers, and the like), Unix user account data, more personal data such as home telephone numbers and photographs, along with any other site-specific data that may be appropriate. In this installment, we'll look at the services that LDAP can provide."