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Python Network Programming
book

Python Network Programming

by Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
January 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
776 pages
19h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

We will use the ldap3 library and import Server, Connection, and ALL modules from it. ldap3 offers an object-oriented access to the directory servers of LDAP.

Listing 11.6 connects to a remote LDAP server and retrieves the server information and schema as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition   -- Chapter - 11 
# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and  Python 3.5.2. 
# It may run on any other version with/without  modifications. 
 
import argparse 
from ldap3 import Server, Connection, ALL 
 
 
def main(address): 
    # Create the Server object with the given address. 
    # Get ALL information. 
    server = Server(address, get_info=ALL) 
    #Create a connection object, and bind with auto bind set to ...
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