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by sk5t 3380 days ago
Kerberos and OAuth are examples of authentication protocols. LDAP is not principally designed for authentication, it is a protocol for reading and modifying an hierarchical directory service (think phone book, DNS, etc.), but the "LDAP bind" operation has often been pressed into service for authn.
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It's probably just a typo, but OAuth(2) is exactly NOT an authentication protocol: https://oauth.net/articles/authentication/