uciwebauth 2018.10.18

Access UCI WebAuth, LDAP person records, and Active Directory user objects

Uciwebauth is a Python library to access identity management and authentication services at the University of California, Irvine (UCI):

1. WebAuth provides a secure, single sign-on authentication solution tool for web applications.

2. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) provides information from the Campus Directory.

3. ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces) enables managing user objects in a Microsoft AD.

Author:

Christoph Gohlke

Organization:

Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics. University of California, Irvine

Version:

2018.10.18

Requirements

• CPython 3.5+

• Python-ldap 3.1

• Pywin32 224

Revisions

2018.9.28

Add option to authenticate with OIT LDAP service. Use OIT instead of Campus LDAP service.

2018.8.30

Move uciwebauth.py module into uciwebauth package.

2018.5.25

Add Active Directory Service Interfaces for user accounts. Drop support for Python 2. Remove Django backend.

2008.x.x

Initial release.

References

1. OIT WebAuth: A tool for validating UCInetIDs on the Web. https://www.oit.uci.edu/idm/webauth/

2. UCI LDAP Directory Service. https://www.oit.uci.edu/idm/ldap/

3. Active Directory Service Interfaces. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/adsi/