Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Introduction to python-ldap

Python's python-ldap (https://www.python-ldap.org/en/latest/) third-party package provides the necessary functionality to interact with an LDAP server.

You can install this package with the pip command:

$ pip install python-ldap

It is also possible to install python-ldap distributions based on Debian or Ubuntu with the following commands:

sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install python-ldap

To begin, you will have to initialize the LDAP connection, where we can replace ldap_server with the IP address of the server and the port number:

import ldapldap_client = ldap.initialize("ldap://<ldap_server>:port_number/")

This method initializes a new connection object to access the given LDAP server, and return an LDAP object ...