# iRedAdmin-Pro (LDAP backend): Add and manage custom services for mail user

It's reasonable that you want to use OpenLDAP server running on iRedMail server as a central identity management database. If you have other softwares/services, and need to restrict some users to use these software/services, the easiest and most elegent soluion is adding extra service name in LDAP database, and update your softwares to use a proper LDAP filter to query users.

We assume you have a GitLab server and Jabber (XMPP) server running on internal servers, and allow different users to use them. In this tutorial, we use service name `gitlab` for GitLab service, and `jabber` for Jabber.

With iRedAdmin-Pro, please open its config file `/opt/www/iredadmin/settings.py` , add a new parameter `ADDITIONAL_ENABLED_USER_SERVICES` like below:

Attention

- If you deployed iRedMail with the iRedMail Easy platform, you should add this setting in config file `/opt/iredmail/custom/iredadmin/settings.py` instead.
- Old iRedMail releases may deploy iRedAdmin-Pro to different directory, please check this tutorial to figure it out.

    ADDITIONAL_ENABLED_USER_SERVICES = ['gitlab', 'jabber']

Then restart `iredadmin` service.

Newly created mail user will have these 2 services enabled by default, but for existing users, you have to add them either manually or do it with some scripting/programming.

You can find these 2 custom service names after logged in to iRedAdmin-Pro, in user profile page, under tab `Advanced`. Screenshot attached.

In OpenLDAP, mail user with these 2 services enabled will have 2 new LDAP attribute/value pairs:

    enabledService=gitlab
    enabledService=jabber

For GitLab, the LDAP filter used to query user should look like this:

    (&(objectClass=mailUser)(accountStatus=active)(enabledService=gitlab))

For Jabber, the LDAP filter used to query user should look like this:

    (&(objectClass=mailUser)(accountStatus=active)(enabledService=jabber))