What in the world is OpenLDAP? Yes, I read about it on the internet, but still, it is weird to me that this even exists. Why is it used for?
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You have never worked for a big corporation have you?
Hes not fiat enough.
This.
Imagine you have, say, 80,000 employees, spread across 8 countries and 15 divisions, which are the result of 4 acquisitions over as many years.
You need "directory services" to work across all of this, but you've got Microsoft Active Directory, Oracle whatever-it's-called, etc., etc.
Enter OpenLDAP.
Don't forget IBM Tivoli. We used that for years.
Where is Watson now?
😭😂🤣😭😂
But did you use all of these fine products? My god, I went looking for whatever they called their holy grail "information bus" product back in the day and got lost in this list. Crazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IBM_products#Computer_software
It is a directory service. As an example it stores things like user identities and the meta data or properties associated with the users. It's similar to Active Directory. When you have interconnected services within an environment that need authentication, you need a central point of truth for the applications to consult.
Look into AAA, Accounts, Access, Authorization. You need a point of authority to be queried, this is a typical use of LDAP.
Um, it's a directory service. For users, groups, passwords etc. in a hierarchical structure.
Enterprises need these to manage their users.
Microsoft Active Directory is another implementation of LDAP (and Kerberos).
It’s used primarily as a means of hosting centralized directories, possibly for secure applications. Access control, authentication, etc.
OpenLDAP is used today because it’s been around forever, and used by a wide range of hosts in various industries.
Thank you. I guess I had the wrong definition in my mind for the word "directory".
Check out this draft NIP for authorisation groups on nostr: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/483
It's self hosted authentication. You can use it with Jellyfin (and other stuff) so you don't need to create and manage user accounts manually. Users can be secure that you don't know info associated with their accounts.
LDAP is so fiat.
You are really young... Lol