Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide

LDAP Server

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a lighter version of the Directory Access Protocol defined in the X.500 standards, particularly suited to TCP/IP networks.

Sun Directory Services 3.1 implements RFC 2251 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3), the LDAPv3 standard which provides the following enhancements over LDAP v2:

The LDAP server function is performed by the dsservd daemon. The dsservd daemon is the component that accesses the database files that hold the directory information, and communicates with directory clients using the LDAP protocol.