Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 Installation Manual page 81

Glossary
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LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Directory service protocol designed to run over TCP/IP
and across multiple platforms.
LDAPv3
Version 3 of the LDAP protocol, upon which Directory Server bases its schema format.
LDAP client
Software used to request and view LDAP entries from an LDAP Directory Server. See also
browser.
LDAP Data Interchange Format
See LDAP Data Interchange Format.
LDAP URL
Provides the means of locating Directory Servers using DNS and then completing the query via
LDAP. A sample LDAP URL is ldap://ldap.example.com.
LDBM database
A high-performance, disk-based database consisting of a set of large files that contain all of the
data assigned to it. The primary data store in Directory Server.
LDIF
LDAP Data Interchange Format. Format used to represent Directory Server entries in text form.
leaf entry
An entry under which there are no other entries. A leaf entry cannot be a branch point in a
directory tree.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
See LDAP.
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