# Table of Contents - [Introduction to LDAP](https://sovran.dev/akshay/openldap/src/branch/master/openldap.md#introduction-to-ldap) - What is LDAP? - What is directory service? - What kind of information can be stored in the directory? - How is the information arranged? - Differences between traditional databases - Usecases - [OpenLDAP](https://sovran.dev/akshay/openldap/src/branch/master/openldap.md#openldap) - What is OpenLDAP? - Features - Cons - [Other free software LDAP implementations](https://sovran.dev/akshay/openldap/src/branch/master/openldap.md#other-free-software-ldap-implementations) - 389 DS - FreeIPA - Samba ## Creating presentations with markdown Pandoc is used to convert markdown to presentation which is in pdf format. [Convert](https://sovran.dev/akshay/openldap/src/branch/master/convert) file contains to command used for conversion. Inorder to convert using pandoc the following packages must be installed: ``` apt install pandoc imagemagick texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-extra texlive-xetex texlive-luatex``` The following [link](https://github.com/alexeygumirov/pandoc-for-pdf-how-to) has more info on markdown presentations.