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
- Multiple database instances
- Access control
- Threaded
- Replication
- Replication daemon called slurpd
- Frees slapd from worrying about hosts being down etc
- Communicates with slapd through text file
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