LDAP Admin for PortableApps.com

LDAP Admin is a free Windows LDAP client and administration tool for LDAP directory management. This application lets you browse, search, modify, create and delete objects on LDAP server. It also supports more complex operations such as directory copy and move between remote servers and extends the common edit functions to support specific object types (such as groups and accounts).

You can use it to manage Posix groups and accounts, Samba accounts and it even includes support for Postfix MTA. Ldap Admin is free Open Source software distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Runtime dependencies

• 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows.

Support matrix

OS	32-bit	64-bit
ReactOS 0.4.14*
ReactOS 0.4.15*
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10
Windows 11

Legend: not supported; not applicable; no data; supported but not verified; verified;

*) Starts up but throws error during LDAP query!

Status

This PortableApps project has been tested when installed locally and on a cloud drive (Box).

Installation

Download

Since this is not an official PortableApp the PortableApps installer must be download first. Navigate to https://github.com/uroesch/LdapAdminPortable/releases for a selection of releases.

Install via the PortableApps.com Platform

After downloading the .paf.exe installer navigate to your PortableApps.com platform Apps Menu ❶ and select Install a new app (paf.exe) ❷.

From the dialog choose the previously downloaded .paf.exe file. ❸

After a short while the installation dialog will appear.

Install outside of the PortableApps.com Platform

The Packages found under the release page are not digitally signed so there the installation is a bit involved.

After downloading the .paf.exe installer trying to install may result in a windows defender warning.

To unblock the installer and install the application follow the annotated screenshot below.

1. Right click on the executable file.

2. Choose Properties at the bottom of the menu.

3. Check the unblock box.

Build

Windows

Windows 10

The only supported build platform for Windows is version 10 other releases have not been tested.

Clone repositories

git clone https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comInstaller.git
git clone -b patched https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comLauncher.git
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/LdapAdminPortable.git

Build installer

cd LdapAdminPortable
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File Other/Update/Update.ps1

Linux

Docker

ℹ️	This is currently the preferred way of building the PortableApps installer.

For a Docker build run the following command.

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/uroesch/LdapAdminPortable.git

Build installer

cd LdapAdminPortable
curl -sJL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uroesch/PortableApps/master/scripts/docker-build.sh | bash

Local build

Ubuntu 20.04

To build the installer under Ubuntu 20.04 Wine, PowerShell, 7-Zip and when building headless Xvfb are required.

Setup

sudo snap install powershell --classic
sudo apt --yes install git wine p7zip-full xvfb

When building headless run the below command starts a virtual Xserver required for the build to succeed.

export DISPLAY=:7777
Xvfb ${DISPLAY} -ac &

Clone repositories

git clone https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comInstaller.git
git clone -b patched https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comLauncher.git
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/LdapAdminPortable.git

Build installer

cd LdapAdminPortable
pwsh Other/Update/Update.ps1

Ubuntu 18.04

To build the installer under Ubuntu 18.04 Wine, PowerShell, 7-Zip and when building headless Xvfb are required.

Setup

sudo snap install powershell --classic
sudo apt --yes install git p7zip-full xvfb
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt --yes install wine32

When building headless run the below command starts a virtual Xserver required for the build to succeed.

export DISPLAY=:7777
Xvfb ${DISPLAY} -ac &

Clone repositories

git clone https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comInstaller.git
git clone -b patched https://github.com/uroesch/PortableApps.comLauncher.git
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/LdapAdminPortable.git

Build installer

cd LdapAdminPortable
pwsh Other/Update/Update.ps1