Openldap

LDAP Server architecture

• LDAP daemon called slapd
  • Choice of databases
    • LDBM - high performance disk based db
    • SHELL - db interface to unix commands
    • PASSWORD - simple password file db
    • SQL - mapping sql to ldap (in OpenLDAP 2.x)
  • Multiple database instances
  • Access control
  • Threaded
  • Replication

  LDAP Architecture