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 My LDAP Server to the name you want to show in the tree view.

5. Search for $servers->setValue('server','host','127.0.0.1'); and replace the 127.0.0.1 port number with the domain name your LDAP server is running on. In my case, this is ldap.example...