ldap-account-manager

LDAP-account-manager is the package in linux distributions which provides the GUI for managing the linux servers.

Step -1 Enabling PHP support for LAM

$> sudo a2enconf php*-cgi
$> sudo systemctl reload apache2
$> sudo systemctl enable apache2

Now we have to visit the following website on the machine

http://<server-ip>/lam

Upon getting this page we will have to select the LAM configuration button on the top right section & then into the edit server profiles section

the login page appears & the default username & password of the login page are "lam"

Setting up the Language & date/time settings on the server

Under the tools settings section we will enter the domain information & in last we will configure the password and save & continue

Now visit the server profile settings again and now we will configure the settings of the modules

Saving the confiuration and login into the dashboard

We will get the following banner page which confirms that the LDAP GUI is configured properly , Upon clicking tools > treeview we can get the hierchial view of the domain interface

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Step-2 : Creating Departments

For creating Department OU we will have to configure it under "Tools > OU Editor"

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Step -3 : Configuring groups

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Step -4 : Configuring Users on the LDAP

This is how we configure the LAM and efficiently manage OpenLDAP users, groups & OUs via the GUI interface on ubuntu server. On the next section we will learn how to protect OpenLDAP server using UFW......