Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition)

Rating:
Summary: Explains the concepts
Review: Though I have only read the first 3 chapters so far, I find this book better at explaining the concepts behind LDAP than Mark Wilcox's "Implementing LDAP". I wanted to understand more about this LDAP thing as a system designer (with a strong RDBMS background). Quite early on, the book explains the differences between directories, databases, file systems, FTP servers, DNS servers and Web servers.

I found the first 3 chapters well explained, and conceptual enough for my purposes. I do intend to go back and read "Part II: Designing your directory service", though I probably skip the rest, which is more useful to implementors. (The rest of the book covers deployment, maintenance, using LDAP with applications, and case studies).

I found the book easy to read, and would recommend the book as a general overview of LDAP that covers many angles.