A Technical Overview of OpenLDAP
This book is a practically oriented technical book. It is designed to help you get OpenLDAP up and running, and to help you integrate LDAP into your own applications.
We will now begin this transition from the high-level material presented earlier to a more practical examination of the OpenLDAP suite of packages. First, let's take a brief look at the technical structure of OpenLDAP.
The OpenLDAP suite can be broken up into four components:
- Servers: Provide LDAP services
- Clients: Manipulate LDAP data
- Utilities: Support LDAP servers
- Libraries: provide programming interfaces to LDAP
In the course of this book, we will look at all four of these categories. Here, we will just get an overview:
This diagram explains how these ...
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