LDAP, What is Lightweight Directory Access Protocol?
Businesses are reaching the conclusion that they have too many repositories of information and they need to create a single login for all their applications. They are turning to LDAP servers to meet that need. If you have three applications running your business, maybe you want to enable a service so that each user in your network can access each application by logging in only once. A sample of this type of technology is Microsoft’s Passport service where you log in once and have access to multiple web sites. You are automatically logged into MSN Messanger, the email service and potentially hundreds of websites around the world. This is the direction business wants to go. A single login enables each user to remember fewer login ids and passwords. They only need to remember one. The LDAP technology is available on multiple operating systems, including Sun One, Microsoft’s Directory Server, IBM and even open source LDAP servers. In the strictest sense LDAP is really not a server at all,
