Installation

Run pip install ldap-groups

Add ldap-groups to INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'ldap_groups',
    ...
)

Django Settings

There are a few settings that must be configured before ldap-groups will run.

Mandatory

• LDAP_GROUPS_SERVER_URI - The ldap server’s uri, e.g. ‘ldap://example.com’

• LDAP_GROUPS_BASE_DN - The base search dn, e.g. ‘DC=example,DC=com’

Optional

• LDAP_GROUPS_BIND_DN - The bind user’s DN

• LDAP_GROUPS_BIND_PASSWORD - The bind user’s password

NOTE: while a bind user is optional, many servers’ security settings will deny anonymous access.

• LDAP_GROUPS_USER_LOOKUP_ATTRIBUTE - The attribute by which to search when looking up users (should be unique). Defaults to 'sAMAccountName'.

• LDAP_GROUPS_ATTRIBUTE_LIST - A list of attributes returned for each member while pulling group members. An empty list should return all attributes. Defaults to ['displayName', 'sAMAccountName', 'distinguishedName'].

Usage

In its current state, ldap-groups can perform the following functions:

• Add a member to a group

• Remove a member from a group

• Get all members of a group (and their attributes) [only retrieves user object classes at this point]

• Get all attributes of a group in dictionary form

• Get a specific attribute of a group

• Get all children of a group (groups and organizational units)

• Traverse to a specific child of a group

• Traverse to a group’s parent

• Traverse to a group’s ancestor

An ADGroup instance only requires one argument to function: a group’s distinguished name. Once the ADGroup is instantiated, the rest is fairly simple:

from ldap_groups import ADGroup

GROUP_DN = "ou=users,dc=example,dc=com"
ACCOUNT_NAME = "jdoe"
NAME_ATTRIBUTE = "name"
TYPE_ATTRIBUTE = "objectClass"

class ADGroupModifier(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.ad_group_instance = ADGroup(GROUP_DN)

    def add_member(self):
        self.ad_group_instance.add_member(ACCOUNT_NAME)

    def remove_member(self):
        self.ad_group_instance.remove_member(ACCOUNT_NAME)

    def get_group_member_info(self):
        return self.ad_group_instance.get_member_info()


class ADGroupInfo(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.ad_group_instance = ADGroup(GROUP_DN)

    def get_attributes(self):
        self.ad_group_instance.get_attributes()

    def get_name(self):
        self.ad_group_instance.get_attribute(NAME_ATTRIBUTE)

    def get_type(self):
        self.ad_group_instance.get_attribute(TYPE_ATTRIBUTE)

Documentation

def add_member(account_name):
    """ Attempts to add a member to the AD group.

    :param account_name: The user's active directory account name.
    :type account_name: str

    :raises: **AccountDoesNotExist** if the provided account name doesn't exist in the active directory. (inherited from get_user_dn)
    :raises: **AccountAlreadyExists** if the account already exists in this group. (subclass of ModificationFailed)
    :raises: **InsufficientPermissions** if the bind user does not have permission to modify this group. (subclass of ModificationFailed)
    :raises: **ModificationFailed** if the modification could not be performed for an unforseen reason.

    """

def remove_member(account_name):
    """ Attempts to remove a member from the AD group.

    :param account_name: The user's active directory account name.
    :type account_name: str

    :raises: **AccountDoesNotExist** if the provided account name doesn't exist in the active directory. (inherited from get_user_dn)
    :raises: **InsufficientPermissions** if the bind user does not have permission to modify this group. (subclass of ModificationFailed)
    :raises: **ModificationFailed** if the modification could not be performed for an unforseen reason.

    """

def get_member_info():
    """ Retrieves member information from the AD group object.

    :returns: A dictionary of information on members of the AD group based on the LDAP_GROUPS_ATTRIBUTE_LIST setting or attr_list argument.

    """

def get_attribute(attribute_name):
    """ Gets the passed attribute of this group.

    :param attribute_name: The name of the attribute to get.
    :type attribute_name: str

    :returns: The attribute requested or None if the attribute is not set.

    """

def get_attributes():
    """ Returns a dictionary of this group's attributes."""

def get_children():
    """ Returns a list of this group's children."""

def child(group_name):
    """ Returns the child ADGroup that matches the provided group_name.

    :param group_name: The name of the child group. NOTE: A name does not contain 'CN=' or 'OU='
    :type group_name: str

    """

def parent():
    """ Returns this group's parent (up to the DC)"""

def ancestor(generation):
    """ Returns an ancestor of this group given a generation (up to the DC).

    :param generation: Determines how far up the path to go. Example: 0 = self, 1 = parent, 2 = grandparent ...
    :type generation: int

    """

Running ldap-groups without Django

If ldap-groups is not used in a django project, the ADGroup object can be initialized with the following parameters:

ADGroup(group_dn, server_uri, base_dn[, user_lookup_attr[, attr_list[, bind_dn, bind_password]]])

• group_dn - The distinguished name of the group to manage.

• server_uri - The ldap server’s uri, e.g. ‘ldap://example.com’

• base_dn - The base search dn, e.g. ‘DC=example,DC=com’

• user_lookup_attr - The attribute by which to search when looking up users (should be unique). Defaults to 'sAMAccountName'.

• group_attr_list - A list of attributes returned for each member while pulling group members. An empty list should return all attributes. Defaults to ['displayName', 'sAMAccountName', 'distinguishedName'].

• bind_dn - The bind user’s DN

• bind_password - The bind user’s password