<article lang="&language;" id="ldap">
<title
>ldap</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
> 
</authorgroup>
</articleinfo>

<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>

</article>
