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A common use of LDAP is to provide a central place to store usernames and passwords. This allows many different applications and services to connect to the LDAP server to validate users. [4] LDAP is based on a simpler subset of the standards contained within the X.500 standard. Because of this relationship, LDAP is sometimes called X.500-lite.
This refers to the organisational unit (or sometimes the user group) that the user is part of. If the user is part of more than one group, you may specify as such, e.g., OU= Lawyer,OU= Judge. cn common name This refers to the individual object (person's name; meeting room; recipe name; job title; etc.) for whom/which you are querying.
Evolution - the contacts part of GNOME's PIM can query LDAP servers. KAddressBook - the address book application for KDE, capable of querying LDAP servers. OpenLDAP - a free, open source implementation. diradm / diradm-2 - A nearly complete nss/shadow suite for managing POSIX users/groups/data in LDAP.
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP for Active Directory uses default attributes flagged for ambiguous name resolution to filter results of an input query. In Microsoft Active Directory the searchFlags attribute is a bit flag that defines special properties related to searching with the attribute.
The Windows Address Book is an application that has a local database and user interface for finding and editing information about people, making it possible to query network directory servers using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Other applications can also use the WAB. Microsoft Office Outlook uses its own PST store for email messages.
Supportworks provides an integrated knowledge base application, e-mail integration through a shared mailbox, and the ability to populate a database of customers from external sources such as directory services using LDAP, query results from external databases, CSV files and Excel documents.
This group is referred to as the primary group ID. A user may be listed as member of additional groups in the relevant entries in the group database, which can be viewed with getent group (usually stored in /etc/group or LDAP); the IDs of these groups are referred to as supplementary group IDs.
Frequently an LDAP server is used to distribute the same kind of information that Hesiod does. However, because Hesiod can leverage existing DNS servers, deploying it to a network is fairly easy. In a Unix-like system users usually have a line in the /etc/passwd file for each local user like: foo:x:100:10:Foo Bar:/home/foo:/bin/sh