LDAP description?

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From: Steve Cousins
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:00

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Hi,

I hate to do this but I am hearing lots of talk about LDAP and no one
seems to know exactly what it is all about so I would like to ask a very
open question:

    What is the main purpose of LDAP?

I have the impression that it is a way to get data over a network.  I
have heard it being linked with X.500 (what exactly is X.500?).

Why I think I need to know about this:

    We have a number of systems (email, calendaring, lap authentication
) in which it would be nice to have one database of all of our users and
be able to set up accounts in the various systems with this one
database.  I take it that we could do this if all of our systems can get
info via LDAP and the database is LDAP compatible.  Is this correct?  Is
this the purpose of LDAP?

Thanks for your help.

Steve Cousins
University of Maine IT
Orono, Maine USA
cousins@umit.maine.edu

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