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Essentially, LDAP directories are online address books, which corporates often use to centralise their contact information. LDAP has been used to perform other functions such as serving DNS, automount directories, authenticating users and many other roles where centralised information is useful.
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!How does it work?
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LDAP stores contacts (people, organisations, departments, etc) using a unique identified called a Distinguished Name (__DN__). A DN could look like this - ''cn=Stephan Borg,ou=people,o=bitweaver''. DN's must be unique within the directory and are used to segregate contact information on a per department, organisation or any kind of grouping level.
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-With each DN, an unlimited number of attributes can be associated. This allows pieces of information to be added to a contact in a flexible manner. These ''attributes'' are determined by a read-only schema, which is control through the LDAP server. Some example attributes are:
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+With each DN, an unlimited number of attributes can be associated. This allows pieces of information to be added to a contact in a flexible manner. These ''attributes'' are determined by a read-only schema, which is controlled through the LDAP server. Some example attributes are: |
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Common Name|cn
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Given name|givenName
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