Python Network Programming

How to do it...

We will provide the bind dn and password in addition to the address of the LDAP server address, as the input arguments.

Listing 11.7 elaborates how to make an LDAP bind:

#!/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, core 
 
 
def main(address, dn, password): 
    # Create the Server object with the given address. 
    server = Server(address, get_info=ALL) 
    #Create a connection object, and bind with the given DN and password. try: conn = Connection(server, dn, password, auto_bind=True) print('LDAP Bind Successful.') ...