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I have been using lldap for a while (paired with Authelia), and it is a real godsend. I feel like I need a PhD to configure openldap, while this was as out of
by yuri91 4y ago
I have been using lldap for a while (paired with Authelia), and it is a real godsend.
I feel like I need a PhD to configure openldap, while this was as out of the box as it gets.
Kudos to the devs!
- dizhn 4y agoI am pretty sure openldap is easier to configure than Authelia. By the way if anybody is interested, authentik comes with an embedded ldap server implementation. It's not perfect but it satisfies the same need. Authorization & authentication.
- cassianoleal 4y agoI configured Authelia in about 5 minutes, using glauth for LDAP. Authentik looks good though, it's in my queue of things to try.
- dizhn 4y agoI don't use everything authentik supports but it's really good software and has a very responsive developer. Its feature list is already very impressive. When I looked at the comparison table on their website (later verified them myself) I was surprised at the things the more popular alternatives do not support.
- yuri91 4y agoWell the comparison here is between openldap and lldap. I would use either as a backend for Authelia. But I found Authelia reasonably simple to use too.
- dmd 4y agoI have a PhD and can't configure openldap
- znpy 4y agoAs I complained in another comment... OpenLDAP configuration is stored in OpenLDAP itself, so you need to know about OpenLDAP in order to start learning about OpenLDAP. It just doesn't make sense and I feel you pain. One great resource I've found about LDAP (in general) is https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ https://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ ("Ldap for rocket scientists"). I remeber spending a couple of week(end)s going through that, and things started to make sense. However, again, there's no real reason for all this to be so complicated...
- paulmd 4y ago> OpenLDAP configuration is stored in OpenLDAP itself, so you need to know about OpenLDAP in order to start learning about OpenLDAP. And postgres configuration is stored in Postgres, so "you need to know about postgres in order to start learning about postgres"... this is a time-honored database tradition, relational metadata is often itself very relational data and you can often get a huge amount of code reuse by utilizing the same handling mechanisms for the data as the metadata.
- cptnapalm 4y agoI tried several times to use LDAP, only to fail each time. Except for 1 user. Then I had to figure out how to stop using LDAP and put his stuff in the regular authentication system.