The latest LDAP protocol version, LDAPv3, is described in RFC 2251 and related RFCs. Another excellent reference is a book sometimes called the "LDAP bible". The book is titled Understanding and ...

Deep dive comparison of SAML and LDAP for CTOs. Learn the differences in authentication, directory services, and how to scale Enterprise SSO.

Attackers are abusing yet another widely used protocol in order to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks: the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which is used for directory services ...

LDAP servers generally exchange information with their clients via entities called attributes. Attributes have three components: an attribute name (which may have nicknames), followed by an equal sign ...

Scalability, tight coupling with Microsoft infrastructure, and ease of management in the on-premise world all contributed to catapulting Active Directory and the associated LDAP protocol into the ...

The "Students" Project at the University of Verona is based on OpenLDAP (it's an open-source implementation of LDAP) for managing the centralized authentication of both Windows and Linux laboratories, ...

As systems get larger and the number of users they support increases, it becomes more difficult to manage systems using only the old-fashioned UNIX /etc/passwd file. A common solution to this problem ...