aadbook 0.2.0

About

AADBook is a fork of GooBook focusing on making it possible to use your Azure AD contacts from the command-line and from MUAs such as Mutt.

Installation Instructions

There is a number of ways to install Python software.

• Using pip

• Using a source tarball

• Using source directly from gitorius

• From a distribution specific repository

pip install aadbook

tar -xzvf aadbook-*.tar.gz
cd aadbook-*
sudo python ./setup.py install

Configure

For most users it will be enough to to run:

aadbook authenticate

and follow the instructions.

To get access too more settings you can create a configuration file:

aadbook config-template > ~/.aadbookkrc

It will look like this:

# "#" or ";" at the start of a line makes it a comment.
[DEFAULT]
# The following are optional, defaults are shown

# This file is written by the Azure AD library, and should be kept secure,
# it's like a password to your AD contacts.
;auth_db_filename: ~/.aadbook_auth.json

;cache_filename: ~/.aadbook_cache
;cache_expiry_hours: 24

set query_command="aadbook query '%s'"

Usage

To query your contacts:

aadbook query QUERY

The cache is updated automatically according to the configuration but you can also force an update:

aadbook reload

For more commands see:

aadbook -h

and:

aadbook COMMAND -h

Changelog

0.2.0 (2019-09-22)

• Adds Python3 support (and removes support for Python2)

0.1.3 (2019-05-01)

• Updates dependencies

0.1.2 (2018-11-01)

• Switches to requests==2.20.0

0.1.1 (2018-10-21)

• Fixes a bug where an exception thrown at startup when automatically refreshing auth tokens could make the authenticate command fail, leaving the user with no option other than wiping out aadbook caches

0.1.0 (2018-10-09)

• Implements automatic fuzzy finding by replacing each `` `` in the search query string with .*

0.0.3 (2018-10-01):

• Fixes a bug where internal credentials were not properly updated after tokens were updated using the refreshToken – throwing an error on the first aadbook query … invocation

0.0.2 (2018-09-16):

• The authenticate command now always initiates a full authentication workflow, irrespective of any cached token

• Start up time has improved thanks the the internal token now being refreshed only when expired

0.0.1 (2018-09-08):

• Project inception