Initially known as a subset of X.500, LDAP has been adopted by the industry as its chosen native protocol for directory access, with vast global prospects. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ...

Suppose you have an Internet Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) server and a bunch of users, but you don't want to give each user a shell account on the server. You'd rather use some sort of central ...

Spring LDAP is a Spring-based framework that simplifies LDAP programming on the Java platform. In this step-by-step guide to using Spring LDAP you will learn how the framework handles the low-level ...

Microsoft updated an August security advisory this week to urge organizations using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) in supported Windows systems to implement some configuration ...

Microsoft expects to delay enforcement of configuration changes to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) until the second half of this year, according to a Tuesday update to Security ...

A new security hole has been found in OS X Lion where usernames can be authenticated without providing a password on systems bound to LDAP servers. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

A Finnish university project to test the security of communications protocols has revealed serious vulnerabilities in several implementations of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) ...

All directories “basically serve as a way for applications to look up other applications, for people to look up other applications or resources, or for managers to look up reservations or resources,” ...

Microsoft's introduction of ADAM has set the stage for a major shift in the way directories are used for application authentication. META Trend: Driven by compliance and cost, organizations will focus ...