Phpldapadmin does not work for an unknown reason

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Theodor Keinstein picture Theodor Keinstein · Dec 17, 2012 · Viewed 24.4k times · Source

I'm trying to install LDAP. I've installed slapd and the PhpLDAPAdmin tool on Debian, but when I'm logged in, I cannot do anything. Despite I've logged in as 'cn=admin,dc=barbucha', I see on the right side instead of the tree:

Logged in as: dc=example,dc=com
   This base cannot be created with PLA.

I tried Google, but this error seems to be a rare one. I've created a database there is the 'cn=admin,dc=barbucha' in. (Otherwise I could not use the name to log in.)

Answer

Theodor Keinstein picture Theodor Keinstein · Dec 18, 2012

This happens quite rarely. From an unknown reason the configuring process didn't get data from the LDAP server and didn't set proper values in the /etc/phpldapadmin/config.php script. Somewhere near by line 300 were two important lines generated erroneously:

$servers->setValue('server','base',array('dc=example,dc=com'));
$servers->setValue('login','bind_id','cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com');

These settings uses PhpLDAPAdmin to access LDAP datatase regardless to the login name you've been logged in with. To update these lines helped:

$servers->setValue('server','base',array('dc=barbucha'));
$servers->setValue('login','bind_id','cn=admin,dc=barbucha');

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