Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LDAP is a protocol for managing a directory of information. It is used for authentication across disparate systems such as WordPress, Nextcloud, Linux or Windows.

LAM is an excellent LAMP based tool for managing a central OpenLDAP installation via the web. OpenLDAP is a free and open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) developed by the OpenLDAP Project. It is released under its own BSD-style license called the OpenLDAP Public License. OpenLDAP is a descendant of the University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 release. The OpenLDAP Project is a member project of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

LAM is an excellent way to manage a central OpenLDAP installation via the web.

What is LDAP? A lightweight directory access protocol. It is a mature, flexible, and well supported standards-based mechanism for interacting with directory servers. It’s often used for authentication and storing information about users, groups, and applications, but an LDAP directory server is a fairly general-purpose data store and can be used in a wide variety of applications.

LDAP belongs to the “User Management and Authentication” category of the tech stack.

LDAP Account Manager (LAM) is a webfrontend for managing entries (e.g. users, groups, DHCP settings) stored in an LDAP directory. LAM was designed to make LDAP management as easy as possible for the user. It abstracts from the technical details of LDAP and allows persons without technical background to manage LDAP entries. If needed, power users may still directly edit LDAP entries via the integrated LDAP browser.