Installing a web interface for LDAP

As LDAP is not very easy to manage over the terminal, we will install a web interface so that the process of adding users becomes a bit more bearable. The management tool we will be using is called phpLDAPadmin. Other options to manage your LDAP environment are also available; a full list of options is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LDAP_software.

How to do it…

Let's install the LDAP server:

  1. Perform an SSH into your LDAP server.
  2. Install phpLDAPadmin by running the following command:
    $ sudo apt-get install phpldapadmin
  3. Next, we configure phpLDAPadmin to know about our LDAP server:
    $ sudo vim /etc/phpldapadmin/config.php
  4. Search for $servers->setValue('server','name','My LDAP Server'); and change ...

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