Could someone please explain LDAP?

Question

I often hear things like \"Can we load our employee info using LDAP?\" Yet, the title \"Lightweight Directory Access Protocol\" makes me think of it as a protocol rather than a

Answer 1

LDAP is a protocol for querying user directories. For example, Active Directory or Novell eDirectory both support LDAP. It is also, to a degree a syntax for doing such queries, like how SQL is a querying language for querying databases.

An LDAP command could look like

(givenName=Mike)

And it would return all Mikes in the directory.