Let's start by getting OpenLDAP from the Debian stable repository. Use the commands: #apt-get install slapd ldap-utils db4.2-util As you install LDAP you'll see messages such as: The DNS domain name ...

is While there are several standards for directories, LDAP’s mindshare is ballooning now. Such disparate vendors as Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Novell, and Netscape support LDAP. Moreover, the number of ...

Information inside an LDAP directory is stored in "entries". Each entry is a collection of attributes that have a globally unique Distinguished Name (DN), which contain a type and one or more values.