What's the best way to write an LDAP client Question: First of all I have to say that I don’t know LDAP so in this question I’ll try to explain what are my thoughts about the task that I have to perform. I need to develop an application, essentially a LDAP client, for authentication on …
python-ldap creating a group returns "already exists" (in an empty OU and non existent sAMAccountName) Question: I set my ldap vars: ldap_server = "ldaps://server:636" ldap_username = "sec-admin@server" ldap_pw = "<pw>" dn = ‘OU=ou1,OU=ou2,OU=ou3,OU=ou4,DC=dc1,DC=dc2,DC=dc3,DC=com’ and successfully connect to the server: import sys import ldap import ldap.modlist as modlist try: ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_REQUIRE_CERT, ldap.OPT_X_TLS_NEVER) l = ldap.initialize(ldap_server) l.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0) …
How to safely authenticate a user using LDAP? Question: For context: I am developing a web application where users need to authenticate to view internal documents. I neither need any detailed info on users nor special permission management, two states are sufficient: Either a session belongs to an authenticated user (→ documents can be accessed) …
ldap3 extend.microsoft.modify_password keeps returning false Question: I’m trying to modify an user account password in but it doesn’t work, I’ve tried it directly in AD and it does work. I’m using ldap3 to do it, here’s the steps I do. First I do the app operation like this from ldap3 import Server, Connection, ALL s …
Can returned attributes be forced into lowercase Question: Changes on our LDAP Server have changed the case of the attributes returned from search. For example, "mailroutingaddress" is now "mailRoutingAddress". The searches themselves are case insensitive, but the python code processing the returned ldap object is attempting to reference attributes in all lower case and failing. …
This script gives all the users data (eg. given output) but I want to fetch specific user's uid, uidnumber, mail, employeenumber. How do I do that? Question: What I should I do to get users uid number, mail, employeenumber? from ldap3 import Server, Connection # clear connection my_server = ‘XXX’ my_user = ‘uid=idmsa,ou=People,ou=auth,o=csun’ my_password = …
LDAP Filter Syntax Question: I am using python library ldap3 to send requests to the servers to query user objects that are not disabled and have a display name or email that contains the user input: query = "(&(objectClass=user)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(|(displayName={0}*)(mail={0}*))".format(value) I followed what I think the documentation says about forming LDAP filters, but I am getting …
Authenticate with Flask-LDAP3-Login based on group membership Question: I’m new to Flask and I’m trying out Flask-LDAP3-Login. I’ve followed the documentation here and i have it working which is great: https://flask-ldap3-login.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html How would i go about authenticating a user based on whether they are a member of a specific group? I see the docs mention …
LDAP search with username as variable Question: I am using the Python-LDAP module and trying to make a query on the logged in user. The username will be passed into the query. When I simply type the username in as a string my results come out correctly. But if I try to pass the (username) …
How should I escape ldap special characters? Question: I’m using python-ldap to query Active Directory I have this DN CN=Whalen, Sean,OU=Users,OU=Users and Groups,DC=example,DC=net That works fine as a base in a query, but if I try to use it in a search filter like this (&(objectClass=group)(memberof:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=Whalen, Sean,OU=Users,OU=Users and Groups,DC=example,DC=net)) I get a Bad search filter …
