Newbie questions about LDAP

[Stephen Allen]

Thank you Matthew, your information was supremely helpful.

In addition to what you said, I eventually found a couple of resources
which were pitched at my level... which other people may also find
helpful (hence my posting).

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/08/16/ldap.html
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15359.html

Regards,
Steve :)
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> LDAP is, as you say, a database (and as the name suggests, a
> protocol for accessing that database.)  The big deal is that it
> is a hierarchical database, more similar to the DNS in organization
> than it is to MySQL or PostgreSQL type relational databases.
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