What is LDAP used for?

Question

I know that LDAP is used to provide some information and to help facilitate authorization.

But what are the other usages of LDAP?

Answer 1

The main idea of LDAP is to keep in one place all the information of a user (contact details, login, password, permissions), so that it is easier to maintain by network administrators. For example you can:

• use the same login/passwd to login on an Intranet and on your local computer.
• give specific permissions to a group of user. For example some could access some specific page of your Intranet, or some specific directories on a shared drive.
• get all the contact details of the people in a company on Outlook for example.