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LDAP - Directory Management

Ldap is an acronym for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A directory in this sense is like a telephone directory which stores user information and other things rather than just phone numbers.

Open Admin can be used to manage an external LDAP server which contains student and staff accounts. Open Admin stores information including the uid (userid), uidnumber (number of the user account), and gid( primary group number that the user belongs to). This information is used to create entries in the LDAP server for each student and staff member.

In turn, this directory information can be used by other applications to authenticate the users. This includes library systems, online learning applications, etc.

LDAP Scripts

There are several scripts that OA provides:


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2010-12-24