Overview#
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or LDAP is a protocol that may be used to communicate with a DSA.
Much more information is defined at LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an open standard that uses the Basic Encoding Rules (Basic Encoding Rules) subset of ASN.1 to encode communication for each LDAP Messages.
LDAP is a request-response type of protocol where each request is followed by a response.
There are several LDAP Protocol Exchanges which can be one or more request and zero or more responses.
More Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:- Active Directory Service Interfaces
- Digest SSP
- Glossary Of LDAP And Directory Terminology
- How Domain Controllers Are Located in Windows
- Introduction To LDAP
- Kerberos SSP
- Key-value
- LDAP
- LDAP Client
- LDAP Directory Information Models
- LDAP Protocol Exchanges
- LDAP Syntaxes and Matching Rules
- LDAP ping
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Authentication Methods and Security Mechanisms
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) The Protocol
- Lsss
- NDSD Loadable Module
- Protocol Stack
- QUIPU
- RFC 2252
- RFC 2589
- RFC 3377
- RFC 3671
- RFC 3672
- RFC 3687
- RFC 3712
- RFC 3866
- RFC 4104
- RFC 4373
- RFC 4403
- RFC 4510
- RFC 4517
- RFC 4519
- RFC 4523
- RFC 4529
- RFC 4531
- RFC 5020
- RFC 7612
- RFC 8284
- Requesting Attributes by Object Class
- RootDSE
- String Representation of Distinguished Names
- Subentries
- The COSINE and Internet X.500 Schema
- Virtual Directory
- X.500
