python-win-ad 0.6.1

An Object-Oriented Active Directory management framework built on ADSI

Introduction

pyad is a Python library designed to provide a simple, Pythonic interface to Active Directory through ADSI on the Windows platform. Complete documentation can be found at http://jcarswell.github.io/pyad/. Code is maintained at https://github.com/jcarswell/pyad. The library can be downloaded from PyPI at https://github.com/jcarswell/pyad.

Breaking Changes from upstream

ADObject:

• _get_password_last_set - Act’s like AD and returns 1970-01-01 if the date can’t be parsed

• get_last_login - Act’s like AD and returns 1970-01-01 if the date can’t be parsed

Importing pyad directly exposes set_defaults, ADQuery, ADComputer, ADContainer, ADDomain, ADGroup, ADUser, from_cn, from_dn, from_guid. Importing pyad.pyad no longer imports the sub modules

Most ADObject update methods now take flush as an optional argument that defaults to True to maintain compatibility with upstream code. For large updates it’s recommended to set this to False until you are ready to write out the change, otherwise you may run into a back-off period in AD where all further changes will fail.

Requirements

pyad requires pywin32, available at https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32.

Testing

To run unittest you will need to set the configuration to be specific to your environment. To do this you will need to edit config.py located in the tests folder.

License

pyad is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”). You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.