LDAP server

Implementation of LDAP server for user authentication. This server is the in-memory LDAP server (IM-LDAP) and it is for non-production environments.

Getting started

Prerequisites

• node

  apt install nodejs
  node -v

• npm

  apt install npm
  npm -v

• OpenLDAP

  apt-get install slapd ldap-utils

Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/jenhao-thesis/LdapServer.git

2. Install NPM packages

   npm install

3. Launch a node app

   node ldapServer.js

Setup LDAP server

The qwer.ldif is a pre-define hierarchical directory structure file.

1. Initial a hierarchical directory structure for user data

   ldapadd -H ldap://localhost:1389 -D "cn=root" -w secret -f qwer.ldif

2. (optional) Search specific user

   ldapsearch -H ldap://localhost:1389 -x -D "cn=root" -w "secret" -b "ou=location2,dc=jenhao,dc=com"