LBE 2.8.1

What is LDAP Browser/Editor?

> The LDAP Browser/Editor provides a user-friendly Windows Explorer-like interface to LDAP directories with tightly integrated browsing and editing capabilities. It is entirely written in Java with the help of the JFC (SwingSet) and JNDI class libraries. It connects to LDAP v2 and v3 servers.

What's new in 2.8.1?

- Improved SSL integration.
- Improved DnD and copy-and-paste interface.
- A number of bug fixes and UI improvements.
- A couple of new attribute editors/viewers.

Features:

- Browsing, searching and editing of the DIT.

- Browsing

- easy navigation through the hierarchical DIT
- viewing of entries' contents

- Editing

- adding, removing, modifying and editing of a single entry or an attribute
- copying, renaming, deleting, and moving entries or entire sub trees in DIT

- Searching

- search results can be saved into an LDIF file

- LDIF support. Entire trees and single entries can be easily exported to and imported from LDIF.
- Object templates. Object templates are used for creating and adding new entries. The templates can be manually or automatically (from existing entries) created.
- Binary value support. Attribute contents can be saved or loaded from a file.
- LDAP v3 aware. Handles and manages referrals, allows for specifying and displaying operational attributes and also for retreiving the naming contexts from the server root DSE.
- SSL support.
- Drag and drop, copy-and-paste interface. Allows for copying and pasting or dragging and dropping entires or attributes between multiple instances or within a single instance of the browser.
- Named sessions. Allows for working with LDAP severs with different configurations.
- Attribute viewers/editors. Each attribute can be associated with a particular viewer/editor that helps to display/edit the contents of the attribute in a specific manner.

- Built-in viewers:

- CertificateViewer for displaying certificate information
- ImageViewer for displaying any gif or jpg images
- PasswordEditor for verifying and generating MD5, SHA and Unix Crypt passwords

- Custom viewers:

- can be written by users and easily plugged-in into the browser

- Applet support. The browser can be ran as a singed or unsinged applet within a web browser.