LDAP (RFC 4510 series)

1. Relationship to X.500 and the LDAP road map

   How LDAP relates to X.500 and how the LDAP RFC set fits together.

2. Protocol elements: Bind

   Simple and SASL authentication operations.

3. Protocol elements: Search

   Base object, scope, filter and attributes in search requests.

4. Protocol elements: Modify and Add

   Modify, Add, Delete and ModifyDN operations.

5. Directory information models

   Entries, attributes, object classes and DIT structure.

6. Distinguished names

   String representation of DNs.

7. Search filters

   String representation of search filters.

8. Bind operation and authentication methods

   Anonymous, simple, SASL and StartTLS.

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