The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open standard for accessing directory services. Net::LDAP is a Perl interface for querying and updating LDAP servers. This tutorial teaches the full power of Net::LDAP from basics like searching and updates, through LDIF, server-side sorting, schema, error detection, and DSML.

The audience should know Perl basics. A very brief recap of LDAP basics will be provided at the start.