A N N O U N C E M E N T
LDAP 3.1
The University of Michigan is pleased to announce release 3.1 of
UM-LDAP, an implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol. LDAP is a proposed Internet standard protocol for
accessing X.500, that runs over TCP/IP. It is similar in function
to the DAS and DIXIE protocols described in RFC's 1202 and 1249,
respectively. LDAP itself is defined by RFC 1487 and RFC 1488.
This release includes the following components:
- ldapd - An LDAP-to-X.500 server
- libldap - An LDAP client library
- liblber - A lightweight BER/DER encoding/decoding library
- in.xfingerd, an LDAP-based finger daemon
- go500 - A gopher index server to LDAP gateway for local searching
- go500gw - A general gopher to LDAP gateway for browsing and searching
- ud - A tty-based LDAP client
- rcpt500 - An email LDAP query responder
- mail500 - An LDAP-capable mailer
- fax500 - An LDAP-capable mailer that support remote printing
- LDAP tools - A collection of shell-based LDAP utility programs
In addition, there are some contributed components:
- web500 - A web to LDAP gateway
- whois++d - A local WHOIS++ to LDAP gateway
- saucer - a simple command-line oriented client program
ISODE (either version 8.0 or IC) are required to build the server,
but the clients and associated libraries can be built separately
without having ISODE.
CHANGES
Changes from release 3.0 of LDAP include
- source tree has been completely restructured
- configuration/installtion procedure has been simplified
- man page documentation has been rewritten and expanded
- addition of display template support in libldap, allowing
easy run-time configuration of how to display entries
- addition of search preference support in libldap
- addition of shell-based ldap utility programs
- addition of Connectionless LDAP (CLDAP) support
- full support for ansi-style prototypes in libldap
(non-prototype systems are still supported through
the use of the unproto utility)
- support for BER and DER and big TAGS in liblber
- addition of a contributed web to X.500 gateway
- many bug fixes
See the CHANGES file in the distribution for more details.
AVAILABILITY
This software is freely available to anyone for any lawful purpose,
subject to the U-M copyright notice and disclaimer. The software is
available for anonymous ftp from the following location:
ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/x500/ldap/ldap-3.1.tar.Z
SUPPORT
The software is provided as is without any express or implied
warranty, but there is a bug reporting mail address which is
responded to on a best-effort basis:
In addition, there is a discussion list for issues relating to this
implementation of ldap:
ldap@umich.edu -- discussion list
ldap-request@umich.edu -- to join the list
Comments or questions about the LDAP protocol in general should be
sent to the OSI-DS discussion group:
osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk -- discussion list
osi-ds-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk -- to join the list
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
This release has been ported to many unix platforms, including
SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3, Ultrix 4.3, HP-UX 9.05, and AIX 3.2.5.
It has also been ported to VMS.
The client libraries and some clients have also been ported to
MacOS 7.1 and 7.5, MSDOS (some TCP stacks), and MS-Windows 3.1.
-- Tim Howes and Mark Smith
University of Michigan