Lightweight Directory Access Protocol(LDAP) is a vendor-neutral protocol to interact with directory services. The open protocol that client/servers should implement is detailed on RFC 4511.

The protocol is often used by organizations for centralized authentication and storage of their resources such as users, groups, services, applications, etc. For example, a client application can find if a user is a member of a particular group to allow access to their service.

This interface allows kdb+ to interact with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). This API permits a client to authenticate and search against an LDAP server. The interface is a thin wrapper around the open-source OpenLdap library. General info on this API is available here.

In addition to authentication and authorization uses, depending on the data stored on your LDAP server, it could be used to access data for analytics e.g.

• company staff turnover (if user creation date/leave dates/etc recorded)
• IT equipment approaching end of life (if hardware details recorded)
• staff departmental memberships

Not all server vendors may provide the same set of features, so this API aims to be vendor-neutral for maximum flexibility.

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General information is available here.

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