File Extension LDIF

File type: LDAP Data Interchange Format File

About the LDIF file type:

If Windows cannot find the appropriate program associated with .LDIF files, then your registry may have errors. Check your Windows registry for errors (includes file association errors).

LDIF is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard that describes the process of importing and exporting directory data between directory servers using LDAP Service Providers. These are used for describing directories as well as directory entries. It is usually used in order to build the initial directories database or also to add a large number of the entries to the directories simultaneously. It also describes changes to the directory services.


Detailed information for file extension LDIF

Category: Data File.
File format: Open Standard
Open with Windows: Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Active Directory Explorer, Softerra LDAP Browser, LDAPSoft LDAP Browser, Apache Directory
Open with Linux: Mozilla Thunderbird, Apache Directory, LDAPSoft LDAP Browser
The LDIF files contains one or several entries each separated with a blank line and each entry has an additional optional entry ID, a required unique name, one or more object classes, and may as well have multiple attribute definitions.