Re: How ldap relate to commerical product?

[Mark Wilcox <mewilcox@unt.edu>]

Hi,
Try looking at Clayton Donley's homepage:
 http://ldap.dyn.ml.org/

I believe Clayton has a more up-to-date version of commercial products.

Commercial support for LDAP is growing. The entire Netscape version 4 of
their server line which should ship sometime this spring, will store all of
their configuration information in a central LDAP server. Not entirely
exciting if you are managing just a single server, but a great help if you
are running a server farm.

Microsoft's Active-Directory for NT 5/Windows 2000 will use LDAP as its
underlying protocol (though ActiveDirectory is not going to be a general
directory server)

Sun has now made Sun Directory Services (SDS) a core part of the OS
starting with Solaris 7. This means they are favoring LDAP over NIS or
NIS+.  (Of course you can go with Luke Howard's ypldap & any LDAP server to
get this functionality as well for a variety of UNIX OSs)

A good deal of your UNIX os's now support PAM authentication. PAM allows
you to interchange your underlying access mechanism while still maintaining
a common API to your apps. Again, Luke has a PAM module for LDAP.

Novell has a LDAP plugin for NDS. And there are a growing number of plug-in
apps that will act as LDAP clients to a LDAP server for Groupwise.

IBM is starting to roll out more & more LDAP stuff, though I have not heard
of any support in Notes (doesn't mean it doesn't exist, I just haven't
heard about it)

That's a start. :)

Mark

shich wrote:

> hi,I am a new comer to this group.What I hope for ldap is making it
> store certificate or other data
> for my program. (A simple goal isn't it)So I am really amazing when I
> find that you here are
> talking about OutLook and Communicator.And it looks like you come to
> LDAP because these
> products use LDAP.
> My question is, Which product support LDAP? Does 'support' mean that
> they can be browsers
> to  LDAP servers?How? If those products themselves are LDAP servers,
> what information is
> stored in them?How can I Access them?
> I think these questions are general questions to LDAP, perhaps I should
> have known their
> answers before I joined into this group, or perhaps I can find answers
> in some FAQs,
> but those LDAP FAQ are only talking about 'what is LDAP'. I don't know
> where else I
> can find the answer .