diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/api-report.md b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/api-report.md
index edeef4cb82..3c6cd4849b 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/api-report.md
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/api-report.md
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ export class LdapOrgReaderProcessor implements CatalogProcessor {
   });
   // (undocumented)
   static fromConfig(
-    config: Config,
+    configRoot: Config,
     options: {
       logger: Logger;
       groupTransformer?: GroupTransformer;
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/src/processors/LdapOrgEntityProvider.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/src/processors/LdapOrgEntityProvider.ts
index bad3941767..b31b7ae266 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/src/processors/LdapOrgEntityProvider.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/src/processors/LdapOrgEntityProvider.ts
@@ -114,17 +114,11 @@ export class LdapOrgEntityProvider implements EntityProvider {
     const config =
       configRoot.getOptionalConfig('ldap') ||
       configRoot.getOptionalConfig('catalog.processors.ldapOrg');
-    if (!config) {
-      throw new TypeError(
-        `There is no LDAP configuration. Please add it as "ldap.providers".`,
-      );
-    }
-
-    const providers = readLdapConfig(config);
+    const providers = config ? readLdapConfig(config) : [];
     const provider = providers.find(p => options.target === p.target);
     if (!provider) {
       throw new TypeError(
-        `There is no LDAP configuration that matches ${options.target}. Please add a configuration entry for it under "ldap.providers".`,
+        `There is no LDAP configuration that matches "${options.target}". Please add a configuration entry for it under "ldap.providers".`,
       );
     }
 
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/src/processors/LdapOrgReaderProcessor.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/src/processors/LdapOrgReaderProcessor.ts
index 8cfc92eff1..74a7e153b9 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/src/processors/LdapOrgReaderProcessor.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-ldap/src/processors/LdapOrgReaderProcessor.ts
@@ -54,15 +54,9 @@ export class LdapOrgReaderProcessor implements CatalogProcessor {
     const config =
       configRoot.getOptionalConfig('ldap') ||
       configRoot.getOptionalConfig('catalog.processors.ldapOrg');
-    if (!config) {
-      throw new TypeError(
-        `There is no LDAP configuration. Please add it as "ldap.providers".`,
-      );
-    }
-
     return new LdapOrgReaderProcessor({
       ...options,
-      providers: readLdapConfig(config),
+      providers: config ? readLdapConfig(config) : [],
     });
   }
 
@@ -94,7 +88,7 @@ export class LdapOrgReaderProcessor implements CatalogProcessor {
     const provider = this.providers.find(p => location.target === p.target);
     if (!provider) {
       throw new Error(
-        `There is no LDAP Org provider that matches ${location.target}. Please add a configuration entry for it under catalog.processors.ldapOrg.providers.`,
+        `There is no LDAP configuration that matches "${location.target}". Please add a configuration entry for it under "ldap.providers".`,
       );
     }