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LDAP Data Interchange Format

The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) is a data interchange format for exporting data from and importing data to encoding.

= Tools that employ LDIF =

The OpenLDAP utilities from the University of Michigan comprise tools for exporting data from LDAP servers to LDIF (ldapsearch), importing data from LDIF to LDAP servers (ldapadd), and applying a set of changes, described in LDIF, to LDAP servers (ldapmodify and ldapdelete).

LDIF is one of the formats for importing and exporting address book data that the address books in Netscape Communicator and in the Mozilla Application Suite support.

Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 include an LDIF based command line tool named LDIFDE for importing and exporting information in Active Directory.

= Examples of LDIF =

This is an example of a simple directory entry with several attributes, represented as a record in LDIF: dn: cn=The Postmaster, dc=localhost objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient sn: Postmaster mail: cn: The Postmaster givenName: The

= RFCs =

  • RFC 2849 — The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification

    • = External links =

  • [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.aspurl=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/sgw_install_ldifde.asp MSDN : Windows 2003 : Using the LDIFDE Tool ]
  • [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.aspurl=/library/en-us/ad/ad/ldif_scripts.asp MSDN : Active Directory : LDIF Scripts ]
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