LDAP development setup

This is a dump of notes how I have OpenLDAP installed on my dev Linux machine and integrated with Moodle dev installations.

LDAP server (slapd)

• Default installation with the (legacy) flat slapd.conf file
• Added cosine and inetorgperson schema

   include         /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
   include         /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
   include         /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema

• Make sure to have suffix, rootdn and rootpw set and noted
• Users created as inetOrgPerson class objects

   dn: uid=s1,ou=Users,dc=example,dc=com
   objectClass: inetOrgPerson
   objectClass: organizationalPerson
   objectClass: person
   objectClass: top
   cn: Student
   sn: One
   mail: s1@example.com
   uid: s1
   userPassword:: dGVzdA==

• Example of storing the enrolment information

   dn: cn=Math101,ou=StudentEnrollment,dc=glux
   objectClass: groupOfNames
   objectClass: top
   cn: Math101
   member: uid=s1,ou=Users,dc=glux
   member: uid=s2,ou=Users,dc=glux
   member: uid=s3,ou=Users,dc=glux

LDAP client

I found Apache Directory Studio pretty nice and useful.

Moodle LDAP authentication setup

Note the plain text password should not be used anywhere but in development/testing environments.

LDAP server setting	Value
Host URL	ldap://localhost/
User type	Default
User attribute	uid
Password format	Plain text
First name	cn
Surname	sn
Email address	mail
ID number	dn

ID number mapping is used for LDAP enrolment.