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RFC 4513: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Authentication Methods and Security Mechanisms

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This document describes authentication methods and security mechanisms of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). This document details establishment of Transport Layer Security (TLS) using the StartTLS operation. This document details the simple Bind authentication method including anonymous, unauthenticated, and name/password mechanisms and the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Bind authentication method including the EXTERNAL mechanism. This document discusses various authentication and authorization states through which a session to an LDAP server may pass and the actions that trigger these state changes. This document, together with other documents in the LDAP Technical Specification (see Section 1 of the specification's road map), obsoletes RFC 2251, RFC 2829, and RFC 2830. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Document record

Document ID
RFC4513
Published
June 2006
Authors
R. Harrison
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
app
Pages
34
Also known as
—
Obsoletes:
RFC 2251, RFC 2829, RFC 2830
Updated by:
RFC 8996

Topics

Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 35 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 1484 (1993)
  2. RFC 1485 (1993)
  3. RFC 1487 (1993)
  4. RFC 1488 (1993)
  5. RFC 1558 (1993)
  6. RFC 1777 (1995)
  7. RFC 1778 (1995)
  8. RFC 1779 (1995)
  9. RFC 1781 (1995)
  10. RFC 1959 (1996)
  11. RFC 1960 (1996)
  12. RFC 2251 (1997)
  13. RFC 2252 (1997)
  14. RFC 2253 (1997)
  15. RFC 2254 (1997)
  16. RFC 2255 (1997)
  17. RFC 2256 (1997)
  18. RFC 2559 (1999)
  19. RFC 2587 (1999)
  20. RFC 2829 (2000)
  21. RFC 2830 (2000)
  22. RFC 3377 (2002)
  23. RFC 3494 (2003)
  24. RFC 3674 (2003)
  25. RFC 3771 (2004)
  26. RFC 4510 (2006)
  27. RFC 4511 (2006)
  28. RFC 4512 (2006)
  29. RFC 4513 (2006)
  30. RFC 4514 (2006)
  31. RFC 4515 (2006)
  32. RFC 4516 (2006)
  33. RFC 4517 (2006)
  34. RFC 4519 (2006)
  35. RFC 4523 (2006) ✓

Read the full history of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Schema Definitions for X.509 Certificates →

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