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'''LDAP'''' (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a protocol for maintaining distributed directory information, useful for such things as syncing address books across multiple systems. The text-based [[LDIF]] standard is built on this, and it is also used in remote configuring of the [[sudoers]] user privilege maintenance system. An enormous number of Internet RFC documents have been issued defining aspects of it. LDAPv3 is the current version. There is a "ldap" [[URL]] scheme connected with it.
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'''LDAP'''' (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a protocol for maintaining distributed directory information, useful for such things as syncing address books across multiple systems. The text-based [[LDIF]] standard is built on this, and it is also used in remote configuring of the [[Sudoers]] user privilege maintenance system. An enormous number of Internet RFC documents have been issued defining aspects of it. LDAPv3 is the current version. There is a "ldap" [[URL]] scheme connected with it.
  
 
== Tech Specs ==
 
== Tech Specs ==

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Name LDAP
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Released 1993

LDAP' (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a protocol for maintaining distributed directory information, useful for such things as syncing address books across multiple systems. The text-based LDIF standard is built on this, and it is also used in remote configuring of the Sudoers user privilege maintenance system. An enormous number of Internet RFC documents have been issued defining aspects of it. LDAPv3 is the current version. There is a "ldap" URL scheme connected with it.

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Lots of other related RFCs exist; many are linked to within the above ones, as well as in the Wikipedia article below.

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