Virtual-LDAP

Virtual-LDAP is a service used to bridge any other account services to the LDAP protocol. With Virtual-LDAP, you can use existing account services (such as DingTalk) as an authorization service for many open source projects.

Virtual-LDAP has a provider architecture, so you can extend it with a custom provider to support any other account service, such as a database-based account service.

Virtual-LDAP is not a complete implementation of LDAP and currently only supports partial binding, search, and modification requests. All directory groups and users will be obtained from the provider.

The database used for Virtual-LDAP is used to store user passwords. Passwords will be hashed using SHA256 plus a salt value.

Configuration

Virtual-LDAP using JavaScript to configure all settings, include DN, admins, database, provider and custom groups.

For every configuration items, see example config file below.

module.exports = {
  ldap: {
    // LDAP serve port, it is a insecure port, please connect with ldap://
    listenPort: 1389,
    // Base DN will be o=Example,dc=example,dc=com
    // Groups base DN will be ou=Groups,o=Example,dc=example,dc=com
    // Users base DN will be ou=People,o=Example,dc=example,dc=com
    rootDN: 'dc=example,dc=com',
    organization: 'Example',
    // Admins who can search or modify directory
    admins: [
      {
        // Bind DN will be cn=keycloak,dc=example,dc=com
        commonName: 'keycloak',
        password: 'keycloak',
        // Can this admin modify user's password
        canModifyEntry: true,
      },
      {
        commonName: 'jenkins',
        password: 'jenkins',
        canModifyEntry: false,
      },
    ]
  },
  // Database for storing users' password
  database: {
    type: 'mysql',
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    port: '23306',
    user: 'root',
    password: '123456',
    database: 'vldap',
  },
  // Provider for providen account service
  provider: {
    name: 'dingtalk',
    appKey: '__APPKEY__',
    appSecret: '__APPSECRET__',
  },
  // Custom groups, base DN will be ou=CustomGroups,ou=Groups,o=Example,dc=example,dc=com
  customGroups: [
    {
      // DN will be ou=Jenkins Admins,ou=CustomGroups,ou=Groups,o=Example,dc=example,dc=com
      name: 'Jenkins Admins',
      // User with these mails will be added to the group
      members: [ 'jenkins@example.com' ],
    }
  ]
}

LDAP DN

For Virtual-LDAP using the above configuration file, the commonly used DNs are as follows.

Root DN

dc=example,dc=com

Search Directory Bind DN

cn=keycloak,dc=example,dc=com

Groups Base DN

ou=Groups,o=Example,dc=example,dc=com

Users Base DN

ou=People,o=Example,dc=example,dc=com

Custom Groups Base DN

ou=CustomGroups,ou=Groups,o=Example,dc=example,dc=com

Jenkins Admins DN

ou=Jenkins Admins,ou=CustomGroups,ou=Groups,o=Example,dc=example,dc=com

Typical User DN

mail=user@example.com,ou=People,o=Example,dc=example,dc=com

Run Virtual-LDAP

Virtual-LDAP can run from source or run as a service in another project.

Run from source

git clone https://github.com/ohdarling/virtual-ldap
cd virtual-ldap
npm start

Run as a service

const server = require('virtual-ldap');
server.setupVirtualLDAPServer(require("./config"));
server.runVirtualLDAPServer();

Testing with ApacheDirectoryStudio

License

MIT License