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help:technical:ldap_tutorial:home [2009/06/26 16:10]
rubin created 		help:technical:ldap_tutorial:home [2009/06/26 16:24] (current)
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 The nice thing about ldap is that MANY MANY other programs know how to do user authentication against it. For example, apache http auth is easy against an ldap server. This makes restricting pages to your users very easy, even on webservers located on other servers away from your services. Many web-based systems such as dokuwiki, sympa, RT, etc can use ldap too. You can even use it to authenticate users on linux/unix systems.  Ldap forms the backbone of most large corporate/educational computing environments. The nice thing about ldap is that MANY MANY other programs know how to do user authentication against it. For example, apache http auth is easy against an ldap server. This makes restricting pages to your users very easy, even on webservers located on other servers away from your services. Many web-based systems such as dokuwiki, sympa, RT, etc can use ldap too. You can even use it to authenticate users on linux/unix systems.  Ldap forms the backbone of most large corporate/educational computing environments.
  
-  * [[OpenLdap homepage|http://www.openldap.org/]] +  * [[http://www.openldap.org/|OpenLdap homepage]] 
-  * [[Wikipedia entry on ldap|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol]] +  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol|Wikipedia entry on ldap]] 
-  * [[Glossary of LDAP terminoligy|http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/apd/]] +  * [[http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/apd/|Glossary of LDAP terminoligy]] 
-  * [[phpLdapAdmin|http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page]]+  * [[http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page|phpLdapAdmin]]
  
 I should say, that ldap is very complicated stuff, and it wasn't written by people who give a flying hoot if you can figure it out or not. If you are not so good on the command line, or not willing to really dive in to understand something complex, this isn't going to be for you. I should say, that ldap is very complicated stuff, and it wasn't written by people who give a flying hoot if you can figure it out or not. If you are not so good on the command line, or not willing to really dive in to understand something complex, this isn't going to be for you.
  
  

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