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"
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
Step-2 : Creating Departments
For creating Department OU we will have to configure it under "Tools > OU Editor"
Step -3 : Configuring groups
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......
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