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 values. They need to be in a format that LDAP understands. For example, if your domain is ldap.jvanbaarsen.com, the value needs to be 'DC=ldap,DC=jvanbaarsen,DC=com'. If you don't use a subdomain and your domain is jvanbaarsen.com, the value would...