Published October 10th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
LDAP Primer
Crossnodes has a short introduction to LDAP explaining what LDAP can and can’t do.
In a nutshell, LDAP provides central management of access, authentication, and authorization. It’s easily customizable and can:
* Centralize user and group management
* Centralize information stores
* Set security and access control
* Securely delegate read and modification authority
* Serve almost any platform
* Scale efficientlyWhat LDAP Cannot Do
* Be a heavy-duty relational or transactional database
* Be a filesystem
UPDATE (15/12/03): Part 2,Part 3, and Part 4 are now available.