Django : looking for a good LDAP manipulation libr

Question

I am looking for a good ldap library on Django, that would allow me to manage my ldap server :

• adding, modifying, deleting entries
• for groups, users, and all kind of objects

The library django-ldapdb looked promising, it offers a Model base class that can be used to declare ldap objects in a Django fashion (which is what we ideally want), however we've had some bugs with it, and furthermore it seems like it is not maintained any more.

Does somebody know a good library that could do the trick ? Otherwise I guess I'll just try to improve and debug django-ldapdb ...

Thanks !

Answer 1

http://www.python-ldap.org/doc/html/index.html

The beauty of Django is that you can use any python module within your application.

Answer 2

sebpiq, you say you applied "one or two fixes" to django-ldapdb, would you care to share them? So far django-ldapdb meets my needs, but I'd be happy to integrate any fixes you might have.

Answer 3

Actually, I have found out that with one or two fixes, django-ldapdb is a pretty good library. The only bad point is that it is not very actively maintained... I will use it anyways, because it is the best solution I have found.

Answer 4

When using ldapdb to query ldap with more results than the server allows instead of getting the partial list (of say the first 500 users) I get SIZELIMIT_EXCEEDED exception. Trying to change the code to catch that exception resulted in an empty result objects. Anyone else had that problem?

I fixed that problem by changing the search_s function to use search_ext and read the results one by one until the exception happens.

Answer 5

There is also django-auth-ldap which claims

LDAP configuration can be as simple as a single distinguished name template, but there are many rich options for working with User objects, groups, and permissions.