This chapter is a guided tour through a mini-application using LDAP. It is intended to give you a basic impression of what you can do with LDAP. Experience has shown that the best way to understand a new tool is simply to use and play around with it. That is what we will do in this chapter. As mentioned previously, we will use OpenLDAP for the examples. OpenLDAP is available for UNIX and Win32 platforms. Because LDAP is an open standard, users of Netscape or other nonstandard products are not excluded from trying out the examples presented in this book. Note that the exact syntax might be different between the various implementations. The syntax of the command-line tools in Netscape is almost identical. In any case, take ...
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