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A N N O U N C E M E N T
The University of Michigan is pleased to announce release 3.0 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:
- LDAP server
- Asynchronous client library
- Synchronous client library
- Lightweight BER encoding/decoding library
- xfingerd, an LDAP-based X.500 finger daemon
- go500 and go500gw, two LDAP-based gopher to X.500 gateways
- ud, an LDAP-based command line DUA
- rcpt500, an LDAP-based email query responder
- mail500, an LDAP-based X.500-capable mailer
- fax500 and xrpcomp, an LDAP-based X.500-capable mailer and
mh-based user agent that support remote printing
- whois++, a WHOIS++ server that uses X.500 as its database
ISODE and QUIPU (either version 8.0 or ICR1) are required to build
the server, but the clients and associated libraries can be built
separately without having ISODE.
CHANGES & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Changes from release 2.0 of LDAP include
- many bug fixes
- addition of rcpt500, a mail-based query responder
- addition of mail500, an X.500-capable mailer
- addition of fax500 and xrpcomp, remote-printing mailer and UA
- addition of caching support to the ldap library
- addition of preliminary ufn support to the ldap library
- addition of general filter handling support to the ldap library
- additional platform support (AIX, NeXT, PC NFS, Windows DLL)
- ldap_bind() call has changed (WARNING!! See the README file)
The LDAP development team would like to thank Andy Powell, Mark
Prior, William Green, Richard Letts, Tomasz Wolniewicz, Enrique
Silvestre Mora, Roland Hedberg, Erik Huizer, Ton Verschuren, Wade
Williams, Gary Veum, Martijn Koster, Phil Gladstone, Mike Newell,
Craig Watkins, Paulo Fernandes, Eric Rosenquist and probably some
others I've forgotten for contributing bug reports, fixes, and
additional code and documentation.
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 host terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
in the x500/ldap/ directory. The file is called ldap-3.0.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:
bug-ldap@umich.edu
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
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
All components of this release are known to run under SunOS 4.1.x,
and are believed to work on Utrix 4.x, AIX 3.2, HP-UX, A-UX. In
addition, the client libraries (liblber and libldap) have been
ported to NeXTStep 3.0 and the following platforms/configurations:
Apple Macintosh System 6.0 or higher, using Think C version
5.x or 6.x, and MacTCP, or MPW version 3.x.
MSDOS version 5.00, using Microsoft C version 5.00, and NCSA
Telnet or PC NFS.
MS Windows version 3.1, using Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 and
Winsock 1.1 compliant TCP/IP.
Future releases will likely be ported to other platforms.