DavidU
07-13-2002, 08:40 PM
Who's using LDAP and what are you using it for?
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 | View Full Version : Who's using LDAP? edude 07-13-2002, 09:04 PM Don't mind me asking, LDAP? :confused: The Prohacker 07-13-2002, 09:19 PM http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LDAP-HOWTO-1.html LDAP is a client-server protocol for accessing a directory service. It was initially used as a front-end to X.500, but can also be used with stand- alone and other kinds of directory servers. DavidU 07-13-2002, 09:37 PM Originally posted by edude Don't mind me asking, LDAP? :confused: google is your friend. -davidu ffeingol 07-13-2002, 11:36 PM We use LDAP at work (non-hosting). We use it for a corporate telephone directory as well as application authentication. I doubt you'll find many web hosts that are using it. It's just too much of a pain to setup. And it would have very little use in a hosting business. OTOH, if you need some LDAP help, I might be able to lend a hand. I'm part of the group that supports LDAP. Frank DavidU 07-13-2002, 11:48 PM Originally posted by ffeingol We use LDAP at work (non-hosting). We use it for a corporate telephone directory as well as application authentication. Thanks for the response Frank. I've used it before for this sort of application and it is GREAT. I doubt you'll find many web hosts that are using it. It's just too much of a pain to setup. And it would have very little use in a hosting business. I don't know about that...in a dedicated environment it can be used to manage customer accounts but that's easily done in other systems...but think about web hosting accounts...It could be *very* powerfull...You could have accounts all spec'd out in LDAP and simply distribute accounts on various servers keeping all the relevant data in LDAP. If a server went down, just bring up a backup onto another machine, update LDAP and all is done... I was just curious why no body is using it...I suppose it is a pain to setup... :-) OTOH, if you need some LDAP help, I might be able to lend a hand. I'm part of the group that supports LDAP. Thanks for the offer. I'm all set with LDAP. It takes a while to get the big picture but once you get it I think it's true power is realized. As a side note, I think everydns.net might switch all of our DNS to an LDAP backend...I've already moved away from mysql to using postgres but I might just switch to LDAP -- I need to do more testing but it could happen. :-) -davidu cyansmoker 07-14-2002, 03:42 AM We use LDAP for network management, more specifically QOS: policies repository. |