LDAP Account Manager is a webfrontend for managing various account types in an LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol network...

 directory. It is written in PHP

PHP

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In contrast to tools like PhpLDAPadmin

PhpLDAPadmin

phpLDAPadmin is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol administration web application written in PHP. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.-History:...

 the focus is account based and to give the user a more abstract view on his directory. The application is licensed under the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

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History

The LDAP Account Manager (LAM) project was founded in February 2003. The first developers were Michael Dürgner, Roland Gruber, Tilo Lutz and Leonhard Walchshäusl. The goal was to create an application to manage Samba software accounts. At this time Samba supported LDAP in its 2.x releases and version 3 was at alpha stage. But there was no GUI to manage them.
Until LAM version 0.4.10 only Samba accounts could be managed. In the year 2004 the project started to develop a plugin architecture to support more account types. The first stable release with the new code was LAM 0.5.0 in September 2005.

Features

The most important account types which are supported by LAM are Samba, Unix

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

 and Kolab

Kolab

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 accounts. The user can define profiles for all account types to set default values. Account information can be exported as PDF

Portable Document Format

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 files. There is also the possibility to create users via file upload.
Since 0.5.0 it includes the tree view of PhpLDAPadmin

PhpLDAPadmin

phpLDAPadmin is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol administration web application written in PHP. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.-History:...

to access the raw LDAP attributes, too.

LAM is translated to eight languages.