<div><div><br>hi <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear Mr.<br>as I understand "LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an Internet
<br>protocol that email and other programs use to look up information from a<br>server." as it's in <a href="http://www.gracion.com/server/whatldap.html">http://www.gracion.com/server/whatldap.html</a></blockquote><div>
<br>ldap is what you said it is but more importantly its just a directory which programs use to authenticate the users accessing that system.<br>for ex, if you have an ldap directory containing all the usernames of your organization, then you can have many applications looking up for information from it.
<br><br>i have an openldap server in my institution that is authenticating users for mail servers, data servers, course management software etc.,<br><br>i would also like koha to authenticate its users through the same directory just to have the same usernames across all apps.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">so why do u need it for koha? could u please explain that to me if you have<br>
time for that<br></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Regards<br>Mohamed Imran K R