[Fedora-directory-users] FDS and phpLDAPadmin

[Patrick Morris]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Heath Henderson wrote:

> I am new to LDAP and more specifically FDS.  I had an OpenLDAP server setup
> a year or so ago which I used an older version of phpldapadmin with.  It
> seemed to work without too much trouble, but I can't seem to get either FDS
> or OpenLDAP working with phpldapamdin.
> 
> I found some information in the list archives as well as other places, but
> my problem seems to be still existing.
> 
> The error I get from phpLDAPadmin
> 
>    Could not determine the root of your LDAP tree.
> It appears that the LDAP server has been configured to not reveal its root.
> Please specify it in config.php
> 
> 
> I would really like to use FDS and have it running what I consider very
> well. I am not able to get this plugged into it and I really don't know
> enough yet on where to look to configure either FDS to reveal its root or
> phpldapadmin to know what the rootDSE is set to?

In your phpLDAPadmin config, you need to set this:

/* Array of base DNs of your LDAP server. Leave this blank to have
 * phpLDAPadmin
    auto-detect it for you. */
    // $ldapservers->SetValue($i,'server','base',array(''));

It should be an array of the DNs you want to appear there.