I have a few doubts.

Going through the internet, I've come across two major implementations of LDAP protocol

The openLDAP, and the libpam_ldap library.

Both have a detailed information of client side implementation.

However, openLDAP gives the slapd which is a standalone server daemon,

whereas from the libpam_ldap library, I am able to gather the existence of an inbuilt ldap authentication system.

Am I correct about that?

Which do you think will be useful to implement as a plugin for mariadb?

Thanks!