General Information
Abstract
The IDM service provides a minimal LDAP Service, based on Libregraph idm, for OpenCloud. It is started as part of the default configuration and serves as a central place for storing user and group information.
It is mainly targeted at small OpenCloud installations. For larger setups it is recommended to replace IDM with a “real” LDAP server or to switch to an external identity management solution.
IDM listens on port 9235 by default. In the default configuration it only accepts TLS-protected connections (LDAPS). The BaseDN of the LDAP tree is o=libregraph-idm. IDM gives LDAP write permissions to a single user (DN: uid=libregraph,ou=sysusers,o=libregraph-idm). Any other authenticated user has read-only access. IDM stores its data in a boltdb file idm/idm.boltdb inside the OpenCloud base data directory.
Note: IDM is limited in its functionality. It only supports a subset of the LDAP operations (namely BIND, SEARCH, ADD, MODIFY, DELETE). Also, IDM currently does not do any schema verification (like. structural vs. auxiliary object classes, require and option attributes, syntax checks, …). Therefore it is not meant as a general purpose LDAP server.