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Using OpenLDAP with Kanboard

Learn how to replace Kanboard's internal user management database with the superior performance, privacy, and security of OpenLDAP

Written by Marty Heyman

Updated at January 28th, 2026

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Kanboard is a free, open-source, self-hosted project management tool designed for minimalism and efficiency using the Kanban methodology. It features a drag-and-drop web interface for visualizing tasks, setting work-in-progress (WIP) limits, and automating workflows. It is lightweight, allows for task, subtask, and comment tracking, and is highly customizable with plugins. 

Add these to the Kanboard config.php

define('LDAP_AUTH', true);
define('LDAP_SERVER', 'ldap://ldap-server.com:389');
define('LDAP_SSL_VERIFY', true);
define('LDAP_START_TLS', false);

define('LDAP_USERNAME_CASE_SENSITIVE', false);
define('LDAP_USER_CREATION', true);

define('LDAP_BIND_TYPE', 'user');
define('LDAP_USERNAME', 'uid=%s,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com');
define('LDAP_PASSWORD', null);

define('LDAP_USER_BASE_DN', 'ou=people,dc=example,dc=com');

define('LDAP_USER_FILTER', '(&(uid=%s)(memberof=cn=kanboard_users,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com))');
define('LDAP_USERNAME_CASE_SENSITIVE', false);

define('LDAP_USER_ATTRIBUTE_USERNAME', 'uid');
define('LDAP_USER_ATTRIBUTE_FULLNAME', 'cn');
define('LDAP_USER_ATTRIBUTE_EMAIL', 'mail');
define('LDAP_USER_ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS', 'memberof');
define('LDAP_USER_ATTRIBUTE_PHOTO', 'jpegPhoto');
define('LDAP_USER_ATTRIBUTE_LANGUAGE', '');

Make sure you adapt the constant LDAP_SERVER to the correct LDAP endpoint. 

You also have to change dc=example,dc=com to whatever your OpenLDAP is handling, and change the kanboard_users group name used in LDAP_USER_FILTER to identify users of a valid group of yours. 

More information on setting up OpenLDAP with Kanboard can be found here.

 

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