Are there Python equivalents for the net ads command?

[Richard Sharpe]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 12:55 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Do these commands exist as Python commands at all?
>>
>> There are so many Python weenies around that it is becoming necessary
>> to have the whole lot available in Python.
>
> While a significant part of what net ads does can be done with the
> python bindings we supply out of the source4 effort, there isn't a
> direct one-to-one connection.  It would be good to add such bindings,
> see how pynet wraps the source4 libnet.  Something similar to 'net ads
> join' can actually be done using the python join code in
> samba.net.join, for example, but this will join using the old samba4
> member code.
>
> That will write out a secrets.tdb along with the secrets.ldb, but it
> would be better if the same code (source3/libnet) as 'net ads join' was
> wrapped instead.
>
> Other tasks that just involve ldap queries could be handled directly in
> python.

OK, I will have a think about that. We use a very large amount of
Python here that I am becoming a Python weenie.

Life would be so much easier if we had Python bindings or wrappers and
could throw Python exceptions ... although, getting them into
protobufs are another issue.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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