LDAP Node.js

Search users on OpenLDAP server using ldapjs and express.

Working with LDAP on dev environment isn't an easy thing, and especially when it comes to configuring an OpenLDAP only for development. So this project contains a simple implementation for users search feature from LDAP, and a docker environment for development based only on docker-compose, so there's no docker file.

The docker-compose has two services:

• dev: lunches the express application using nodemon by running the script dev into package.js.
• ldap: starts the OpenLdap server, adds the groups and users from ./ldif/directory.ldif.

Both services working on the same network ldap network. So the ldapjs client on dev has access to ldap through this config:

const client = ldap.createClient({
  url: "ldap://ldap:389"
});

Starting the dev environment

To make thing more pleasant, I created a make file, so need to remember all docker commands to start your project. first of all, you necessitate to install the dependencies and start the dev server via docker-compose up, by typing:

make install
make dev

Hola! now you can request the user's search thought out the Rest API, via:

curl -X GET http://localhost:3000/users

Besides that, the search endpoint accepts search param query as cn filter for users search

curl -X GET http://localhost:3000/users\?search\=mo

Bonus

Generate a user password

docker exec ldap slappasswd -h {SSHA} -s admin