Overview
This screencast shows a walk through of installing openldap and phpldapadmin. After installation I go through and setup a couple of organizational units to store users and groups which I’ll use in a later screencast when I configure ubuntu to authenticate against against an LDAP server for user logins.
This screencast doesn’t really acomplish anything overly exciting but is required before heading into some of the things that LDAP can do, such as centralized user authentication or storing your puppet configured servers and their classes.
Resources
apt-get install slapd apt-get install ldap-utils apt-get install phpldapadmin emacs /etc/ldap/ldap.conf (set BASE dc=test,dc=net and URI ldap://172.16.1.1) emacs /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini (set memory_limit = 32M) ldapadd -c -x -D "cn=admin,dc=test,dc=net" -W -f ./test.ldif
8 Comments
Pretty good introduction.
Cheers. Thanks for watching
i am very happy to view this video, i am suffering from how to configure openldap server in ubuntu 8.10
I don’t have any other means to reach you, so i’m trying it this way
The reason i’m trying to contact you is that great video on ldap installation. I’m a beginner at linux and ldap and that video was just perfect for the likes of me. But, as it’s always the case with me setting up something, something was wrong. Even though i followed all the steps from the video, i could not login to my server. It had cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com in Login DN field even though in your video you clearly had your settings from ldap.conf file. Changing them manualy in the field in phpldapadmin did nothing either. I don’t understand what exactly happened. I followed through all the steps (on a fresh Ubuntu installation, fully updated) and yet, no use. Any help would be appreciated since i’m slowly losing my mind. Nowhere on the entire internet could i find such simple, down to earth installation instructions like in your video, and when i finally thought “hey, wow, this will work”, i get disappointed again. So, please help out, my graduation work depends on it.
Thank you.
Great video. I also watched the other videos for how to setup SSO for SSh, etc.
Thanks for sharing. Would be great to see more vids.
Hi!
Thank you for sharing such good information.
Currently I am struggling to install openldap in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) By any chance do you have some tricks to share for this release?
Thank you!
To be honest I haven’t done much with LDAP in quite some time. Most of my days are spent on Windows boxes
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The best source of information I found was from the Ubuntu Server Guide – https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html. This should hopefully be enough information to get you up and running.
Best of luck.
Really very useful, thank you very much for sharing this and please Keep up the good work you are doing.
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