LDAP
LDAP is an acronym for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is
a simplified version of the LDAP standard is actually generated based on the X.500 standard
LDAP features
- LDAP structure represented by the tree, rather than form. Because of this, the SQL statement can not be used
- LDAP can quickly get results, but in terms of writing, it is much slower
- LDAP provides a quick query of static data
- Client / server model
Server for data storage
tool Client provides directory information tree operation of
these tools can be a content database in text format (LDAP Data Interchange Format, LDIF) presented in front of you
- LDAP is an open Internet standard, LDAP protocol is cross-platform protocol Interent
It is based on the X.500 standard, and X.500, LDAP supports TCP / IP (which can distributed deployment)
such information is most useful to store LDAP: that is, the need to read data from different locations, but not often update:
- Staff telephone directory and organizational chart
- Customer contact information
- Computer information management needs, including the NIS maps, email pseudonym, etc.
- Configuration information package
- Public certificates and security keys