The origins of LDAP begin with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) based in Geneva. ITU began setting email standards which required a directory of names (and other information) that could ...

Business computer networks employ the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, to distribute lists of information organized into hierarchies. To access a network's LDAP services, your computer ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

Directory services are a critical component of any enterprise environment. These services provide a database for central account management for both user and computer, as well as a framework for ...

Spring LDAP is a Spring-based framework that simplifies LDAP programming on the Java platform. In this step-by-step guide to using Spring LDAP you will learn how the framework handles the low-level ...

Editor’s note: When originally published this article said that by using dynamic user identification (UID) generation, users might be assigned a different UID number each time they logged onto a ...

Editor’s Note: This story is reprinted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Directory services are a critical component of any enterprise ...