LDAP server in Python

[Peter Hansen]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> 
> Meanwhile, I also recommend you install OpenLDAP on
> your laptop.  You'll be glad you did.  Once you be-
> come comfortable with it, you'll find you use LDAP
> for quite a bit more than the minimum.

Would you please expand on that statement, Cameron, for those of
us with a negligible understanding of this area of computing?
Thanks.

-Peter