What is LDAP? The acronym simply explained

LDAP is an acronym that is often used in companies that digitise their data. The aim is to make the data transparently available to several employees.

What LDAP is

LDAP is an acronym. This means that it is an abbreviation for several individual words that together form a term.

• LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It is therefore a protocol that allows access.
• The protocol belongs to the network protocols. These are responsible for the exchange of data between computers that are in a computer network.
• The LDAP is used in directory services. This means that companies create directories here.
• Directories contain data that is to be edited, retrieved and organised. Such data are, for example, user names.

• In order to reduce the complexity of such a directory service, LDAP is used. This creates the possibility to efficiently find, change, etc.

Concrete tasks of an LDAP

Some tasks of LDAP are:

• The storage of passwords
• The authentication of a session
• Modifying or deleting directory entries
• Directory forwarding
• Structuring and organising directories