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I'd like to set up LDAP to act as central authentication of 2 web applications running on the same server.

Whats the simplest step-by-step way to go about this from scratch?

In the long run I'd also like to be able to administer the users on the system as simply as possible (think end users, not devs!)

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because ldap is VERY hard to setup for beginners i would recommend an server configuration tool. (trust me i have spent nights to fight against openldap) you can checkout ebox (its a server managment gui) and it configure openldap-server + samba ( windows domain logons)

Doku: http://doc.zentyal.org/en/directory.html

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  • That's true. I don't know any way of simplifying LDAP. It's designed to meet so many different requirements and be so flexible that it can be impossible to understand the basics. Implementations like OpenLDAP don't do administrators any favors, either.
    – Tim Yates
    Sep 5, 2010 at 23:03
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Maybe this tutorial answers your question.

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  • Lots of good answers, but this tutorial got me closest to what I was after.
    – Jon Hadley
    Oct 13, 2010 at 10:50
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Try to follow the chapter on installing and configuring an OpenLDAP server in the Ubuntu Server Guide.

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  • The guide for setting up OpenLDAP has been broken since the Karmic Koala release and there is an unresolved bug entered about it. Look elsewhere.
    – Mei
    Jun 24, 2011 at 14:33
  • This article shows how to set up a working OpenLDAP server in Ubuntu 10.04. Just don't do an ldapsearch remotely and expect to work.
    – Mei
    Jun 24, 2011 at 14:34
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Look at this also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM_UQVVVtoY

The guy that made it, explains it fairly decent.

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