Configuring GitLab to use LDAP on a source installation

In this recipe, we will configure your GitLab source installation to use the LDAP server.

How to do it…

We perform the following steps to use LDAP on a source installation:

  1. Log in via SSH to your GitLab server.
  2. Go to the directory with the gitlab.yml configuration file:
    $ cd /home/git/gitlab/config/
  3. Open the gitlab.yml file and find the ldap section.
  4. Change enabled: false to enabled: true.
  5. Change the following information:
    host: '_your_ldap_server'
port: 636 
uid: 'uid'
method: 'plain' # "tls" or "ssl" or "plain"
bind_dn: 'CN=admin,DC=your,DC=ldap,DC=server'
password: '_the_password_of_the_bind_user'
base: 'DC=your,DC=ldap,DC=server'

    It is important that you keep an eye on the base and the bind_dn ...

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