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C H A P T E R 6 Using the Lightweight Directory

Access Protocol as a Directory Service

Adaptive Server uses directory services to establish client and RPC connections over the Internet. This chapter provides information about using LDAP directory services to establish connections.

Topic	Page
Overview	69
LDAP directory services versus the Sybase interfaces file	70
The libtcl*.cfg file	73
Enabling LDAP directory services	74
Adding a server to the directory services	76
Multiple directory services	77
Encrypting the password	78
Performance	78
Migrating from the interfaces file to LDAP	79

Overview

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an industry standard for accessing directory services. Directory services allow components to look up information by a distinguished name (DN) from an LDAP server that stores and manages server, user, and software information that is used throughout the enterprise or over a network.

The LDAP server can be located on a different platform from the one on which Adaptive Server or the clients are running. LDAP defines the communication protocol and the contents of messages exchanged between clients and servers. Messages are operators, such as client requests for read, write and query, and server responses, including data-format information.

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