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<title>ldap</title>
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<author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<para><acronym>ldap</acronym> is the lightweight directory access
protocol.  It provides access to an X.500 directory, or to a stand-alone
<acronym>LDAP</acronym> server.</para>

<para>You can use the ldap kioslave as follows:</para>

<para><userinput>ldap://host:port/ou=People,o=where,c=de??sub</userinput>
for a subtree-query</para>

<para>or
<userinput>ldap://host:port/cn=MM,ou=People,o=where,c=de??base</userinput>
for a complete branch.</para>

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