LDAP/Python Libgpo - GSOC question
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Fri Jul 19 03:51:49 MDT 2013
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 22:47 +0000, luke morrison wrote:
> Hello Samba People,
> my name is Luke Morrison and I was sponsored by Google Summer of Code to work on making a server side GPO script. I have a question.
>
> LDAP sends out comments from requests. For what I am doing, I will need certain parameters of this reply all from python.
>
> Ok so how I see it there are a few ways .
> 1)I can use some probably really easily created python command for that which Samba MUST have. This is my question mostly, what tools do I have in python already made?
> 2)I could use the command line. There is a really good LDAP command line to get direct results, I forget it now but I could use that. Now that would require a few parameters such as host and IP, but I am pretty sure that I could import OS and SYS and play with it to get those parameters.
> 3)The least favored way : Make a couple bindings for LDAP. This is my last resort of course because it would get me side tracked. I am working on binding the mass of the group policy object library right now.
> This is my first time on samba-technical and I am hoping this will bring better results than lullin on IRC.
> Cheers, and thank you in advance
> Luke Morrison
See the LDB python bindings, used extensively in the existing samba-tool
gpo client and elsewhere in the codebase. This can connect to a remote
LDAP server, as well as local LDB files.
Andrew Bartlett
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