How deeply does MongoDB 8.0 in Action, Third Edition cover Lightweight Directory Access Protocol?

Defines LDAP’s role in Atlas authentication and selection, but does not explain directory schemas, protocol exchanges, or configuration steps.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

As explained in MongoDB 8.0 in Action, Third Edition

LDAP is a directory-access protocol for querying and managing identity and organizational information in a directory service.

LDAP is a directory-access protocol for authenticating users and managing authorization through centralized identity information. In Atlas, it fits enterprises that already operate LDAP infrastructure across departments and teams. section 20.2.1 section 20.2.3

Choose LDAP when these operational conditions apply:

Use it when an existing corporate LDAP directory should centrally control authentication and authorization across departments and teams. section 20.2.3
Balance the choice against security, compliance, and operational requirements rather than treating LDAP as the universal authentication method. section 20.2.3
Plan for migration because LDAP authentication and authorization are deprecated beginning with MongoDB 8.0, despite unchanged support in that release. section 20.2.1

Enterprise Atlas access

An organization with a large, established LDAP deployment can connect Atlas authentication to its existing directory, keeping user authentication and authorization centrally managed across teams. section 20.2.3

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directory serviceuses · A directory service is a network-accessible system that organizes, stores, and retrieves information about identities, resources, attributes, and permissions.
role-based access controlused by · Role-based access control is an authorization model that assigns permissions to roles and grants users or other principals access through their assigned roles.
Apache Airflowused by · Apache Airflow is an open-source platform for authoring, scheduling, and monitoring programmatically defined workflows, commonly represented as directed acyclic graphs.
TLSuses · Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol that protects network communications through confidentiality, integrity, and authentication of communicating endpoints.
identity provideruses · An identity provider is a system that authenticates users or other entities and supplies identity information or authentication assertions to relying applications and services.
authenticationused by · Authentication is the process of establishing or verifying the identity of a user, service, device, or other communicating entity.

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