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What is LDAP and what is it used for?

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What is LDAP and what is it used for?

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LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol — a fact we learned from a Yahoo! search that took us to a category called LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), located in part of the Computers & Internet hierarchy. Apparently, LDAP is an up-and-coming acronym that hasn’t made it into popular parlance, yet. We headed to the LDAP FAQ for a definition. Here’s an answer to the first part of your question: (Warning: If you suffer from jargon allergies hit the back button on your browser now.) “LDAP is a client-server protocol for accessing a directory service. It was initially used as a front-end to X.500, but can also be used with stand-alone and other kinds of directory servers.” Uh-oh We headed off to Whatis.com, a friendly ency