Question : What is LDAP stand for?  Also what is LDAP used for?  Advantages, Disadvantages?

What is LDAP stand for?  Also what is LDAP used for?  Advantages, Disadvantages?

Answer : What is LDAP stand for?  Also what is LDAP used for?  Advantages, Disadvantages?

LightWeight Directory Access Protocol
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LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an Internet protocol that email programs use to look up contact information from a server, such as ClickMail Central Directory

LDAP was designed at the University of Michigan to adapt a complex enterprise directory system (called X.500-precurser to AD) to the modern Internet. A directory server runs on a host computer on the Internet, and various client programs that understand the protocol can log into the server and look up entries. X.500 is too complex to support on desktops and over the Internet, so LDAP was created to provide this service "for the rest of us."