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Network service enumeration
From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
Network service enumeration
- [Instructor] Network service enumeration. In this lesson, we're going to look at different network services and the ways of enumerating those services to get information. Let's go ahead and get started. LDAP Enumeration, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or LDAP is an open standard internet protocol. LDAP is used for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services. So this is the protocol that's behind Active Directory, Open Directory, Oracle iPlanet, Novell eDictionary, and OpenLDAP. So tools to enumerate LDAP are Jxplorer, LDAP admin tool, LDAP Account Manager, Active Directory Explorer, LDAP Administration Tool, LDAP Search, and Active Directory Domain Services Management Pack. So why would you want to enumerate LDAP? As you can see, it's a directory service. So there's a lot of information about users, about network resources, printers and computers that runs in active directory and other services, directory services. So LDAP is the backbone or the…