Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a directory listing of people, individual's certificates and resources. LDAP allows you to search for individuals by name, email, phone number, organization, organizational unit, city or street. The most common search is to locate names of individuals and their email addresses. The instructions below will assist you in setting up your LDAP directory for ORC Interim External Certificate Authority.
Open Netscape Communicator 4.X and select Communicator | Address Book.
When the Address Book opens select File | New Directory.
A window as shown below will appear. Type in the following information:
To Search for A Name in The LDAP Directory
Open Netscape Communicator 4.X and select Communicator | Address Book. The window below will appear.
In the Left frame highlight the ORC ECA Directory. Then type in the name you are searching for in the Show names containing: box.
For Extended Search CapabilitiesClick the Search for... button.
Type in appropriate information.
Further Details
LDAP is the proposed open standard protocol for directory services over TCP network protocol. LDAP can be used to access standalone LDAP directory services or those supporting the X.509 Standard. This provides a standard way for Internet clients, applications, and Web servers to access directory listings of millions of Internet users.
