It's a standard used for distributed directories.  Like Active Directory.

Aaron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Wagner" <ismgr@atchisonkansas.net>
To: "KC Linux Users Group" <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:02 PM
Subject: LDAP.

> What is it and what is it useful for?
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> I've read a short bit of information on it, and I see that it is
classified
> as a "directory service", but what exactly is that?
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> What benefit does it provide?
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> Thanks!
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> Chris
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