Summary
We described the use of a general purpose LDAP directory in integrating services and personnel in a company such as Elsolutions. We decided to defer implementing an LDAP-based security domain until the open-source supporting technology matures enough to support both Windows XP and Red Hat Linux 7.1. Meanwhile, Elsolutions will begin a fledgling yellow pages service by publishing services such as the locations of its RDBMS in the directory such that its applications must consult the directory to find the service. A Red Hat Linux 7.1 OpenLDAP directory service will host the directory. This enables centralized control of services by enabling their modification while minimizing possible interruption of services to clients. Having directory ...
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