RE: LDAP question

["Jason Holland" <jphollan earthlink net>]

Ldap can do many things.  Authentice web users with an apache module,
provide authentitication for samba.  There is even a PAM module for
authenticating logons on your linux box against an ldap server.  Have you
found the openldap project yet??  http://www.openldap.org.  and yes, with a
single ldap server, you could provide authentication for just about any
service, a single logon and password.  that would give you the same
functionality as nis.

jason

>
>
> Can someone point me at some plain english (not the RFCs) for ldap. I am
> looking for examples on just what you can do with this thing. So
> far the only
> thing I found is some sparce documentation on using it with nss_ldap.
> I am looking for examples if they exist. If I understand this it looks
> like a replacment for nis or nis+ but I have a feeling it can do more.
> Am I correct or totally off base?
>
> TIA,
>
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