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PhpLDAPadmin: Setting Up a Graphical Management Solution for OpenLDAP
Introduction
Managing an OpenLDAP database is not always simple, especially when you don’t know all the fields by heart (and there are so many of them).
Here’s a fairly simple web-based interface to use. For those curious about other graphical interfaces (non-web), there are:
- The well-known but buggy GQ
- The less known but very good Apache Directory Studio
Installation
Let’s use the magic command:
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Configuration
Minimum Configuration
Edit the file /etc/phpldapadmin/config.php
and adapt these lines:
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Disabling Anonymous Account
Edit the file /etc/phpldapadmin/config.php
. First, we don’t need to allow people without accounts to have read access to the LDAP through our new interface. Here’s the line to look for:
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Replace it with:
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Lighttpd
A little configuration for Lighttpd? Let’s go:
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I think this configuration is not optimal and certainly not very secure, but at least it works.
Last updated 11 May 2009, 11:06 CEST.