[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by m-tuning

maybe usefull to explain what LDAP means?

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

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The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP (IPA: [ˈɛl d?p]), is an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP.
A directory is a set of information with similar attributes organized in a logical and hierarchical manner. The most common example is the telephone directory, which consists of a series of names (either of a person or organization) organized alphabetically, with an address and phone number attached.
An LDAP directory often reflects various political, geographic, and/or organizational boundaries, depending on the model chosen. LDAP deployments today tend to use Domain Name System (DNS) names for structuring the topmost levels of the hierarchy. Deeper inside the directory might appear entries representing people, organizational units, printers, documents, groups of people or anything else which represents a given tree entry (or multiple entries).
Its current version is LDAPv3. LDAPv3 is specified in a series of IETF Standard Track RFCs as detailed in RFC 4510.

Maybe I will install it, when I know what it is

It is one of those things that if you don't know what it does, you don't need it.