Installing phpLDAPadmin

In the previous recipe, we installed the LDAP service, but working with LDAP using the command line interface is quite a complex and lengthy task. This recipe covers the installation of a user interface, phpLDAPadmin. The phpldapadmin package provides an easy-to-use web-based user interface for the LDAP service.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have the LDAP service installed and running.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to install phpLDAPadmin:

  1. The Ubuntu package repository makes things easy again by providing the package for phpLDAPadmin. The web interface can be quickly installed in a single command as follows:
    $ sudo apt-get install phpldapadmin
  2. The installation process takes care of installing all dependencies including ...

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