Install and configure OpenLDAP

This chapter is not related to Dolibarr iself. It contains a tutorial to install a LDAP annuary that could be linked with Dolibarr.

Install LDAP server

• With Ubuntu or Debian, install package slapd and ldap.
• With Windows, you can use the install program of OpenLDAP.

Once this is done, you have an empty LDAP server launched as a service.

Setup server

For Ubuntu, see page http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/openldap-server

Otherwise the DN root, user and password to connect are available into file slapd.conf. Port may also be into this file, if not, it is default port value: 389.

Stop the service

Modify file slapd.conf to use your domain name (replace all dc=my-domain,dc=com by value of your choice).

Modify file slapd.conf also to add includes of schemas you will need to declare your LDAP objects.

include		./schema/core.schema
include		./schema/cosine.schema
include		./schema/inetorgperson.schema
include		./schema/nis.schema

Restart the service.

Test server

With a LDAP browser like JXplorer, you can try to connect to your LDAP server using the admin LDAP user. Credentials by default are:

• Server: Localhost
• Port: 389
• User: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com or cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com
• Password: secret
• Base DN (optionnel): keep empty or set dc=mydomain,dc=com

Create your LDAP tree

Next step is to define information to store into your LDAP.

Create a file init.ldif with your organization. For example:

# Organization
dn: dc=mydomain,dc=com
objectclass: dcObject
objectclass: organization
dc: mydomain
o: Description of annuary
description: The description of annuary
# Setting up container for Users OU
dn: ou=People,dc=mydomain,dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: organizationalUnit
ou: People
# Setting up container for groups
dn: ou=Groups,dc=mydomain,dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: organizationalUnit
ou: Groups

Execute file using the LDAP admin user:

ldapadd -f init.ldif -D "cn=Manager,dc=mydomain,dc=com" -w secret
or
ldapadd -f init.ldif -D "cn=admin,dc=mydomain,dc=com" -w secret

Troubleshooting

With Windows, it server is stop suddenly, restart of OpenLDAP may fails with error Program version x.y doesn't match environment version

To confirm problem, go onto DOS under directory data of OpenLDAP and launch command

..\db_stat -e

If message is the one described, launch repare of base with

..\db_recover

Server should be able to start again.