March Aclug Meeting: Monday, March 10: LDAP

James Lancaster will present this month's meeting covering LDAP (Lighweig=
ht
Directory Access Protocol), and how to setup an integrated LDAP/SMB/CUPS/=
NFS
environment, allowing both Linux and Windows clients for a server.

You can visit his current project at http://sloppyadm.sourceforge.net. Cu=
rrently
in Alpha, it works, but is not very error-proof (requiring the admin(s) t=
o not
screw up), it also currently only works for installed systems.

An explaination of LDAP can be found here:

http://www.stanford.edu/~hodges/talks/mactivity.ldap.97/index.html

An excerpt follows:

A Directory is like a database..
you can put information in, and later retrieve it
..but it is specialized.
Some typical characteristics are...

* designed for reading more than writing
* offers a static view of the data
* simple updates without transactions

A Directory Service sports all of the above, plus..
a network protocol used to access the directory
..and perhaps also..

* a replication scheme
* a data distribution scheme

--dwh

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Dale W Hodge - [email protected]
Vice Chairman & Secretary - [email protected]
Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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