From: lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca   
      
   On Thursday 28 November 2013 16:38, in   
   comp.protocols.tcp-ip, "SpreadTooThin"  wrote:   
      
   > I am writing an application that requires a user to log in.   
   > Rather than keeping a table of users and passwords, I'd like to use LDAP   
   > to authenticate the users.  (Is that what Lightweight Director Access   
   > Protocol was intended for?)   
      
   Actually, no. But that shouldn't stop you from trying to use it that way.   
      
   LDAP was developed as a low-overhead alternative to the X.500 Directory   
   Service, which (IIRC, at the time of LDAP's development) was primarily used   
   as an "Address book" for electronic messaging.   
      
   > Can someone point me to a low level document that explains the protocol?   
      
   As Rod said, see the RFCs   
      
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