""" Various examples how to connect to a LDAP host with the new factory function ldap.initialize() introduced in OpenLDAP 2 API. Assuming you have LDAP servers running on ldap://localhost:1389 (LDAP with StartTLS) ldaps://localhost:1636 (LDAP over SSL) ldapi://%2ftmp%2fopenldap2 (domain socket /tmp/openldap2) """ import sys,ldap # Set debugging level ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_DEBUG_LEVEL,255) ldapmodule_trace_level = 1 ldapmodule_trace_file = sys.stderr # Set path name of file containing all CA certificates # needed to validate server certificates ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_CACERTFILE,'/etc/httpd/ssl.crt/myCA-cacerts.pem') print """################################################################## # LDAPv3 connection with StartTLS ################################################################## """ # Create LDAPObject instance l = ldap.initialize('ldap://localhost:1390',trace_level=ldapmodule_trace_level,trace_file=ldapmodule_trace_file) # Set LDAP protocol version used l.protocol_version=ldap.VERSION3 l.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS,ldap.OPT_X_TLS_DEMAND) # Now try StartTLS extended operation l.start_tls_s() # Try a bind to provoke failure if protocol version is not supported l.bind_s('','',ldap.AUTH_SIMPLE) # Close connection l.unbind_s() print """################################################################## # LDAPv3 connection over SSL ################################################################## """ # Create LDAPObject instance l = ldap.initialize('ldaps://localhost:1636',trace_level=ldapmodule_trace_level,trace_file=ldapmodule_trace_file) # Set LDAP protocol version used l.protocol_version=ldap.VERSION3 # Try a bind to provoke failure if protocol version is not supported l.bind_s('','',ldap.AUTH_SIMPLE) # Close connection l.unbind_s() print """################################################################## # LDAPv3 connection over Unix domain socket ################################################################## """ # Create LDAPObject instance l = ldap.initialize('ldapi://%2ftmp%2fopenldap2',trace_level=ldapmodule_trace_level,trace_file=ldapmodule_trace_file) # Set LDAP protocol version used l.protocol_version=ldap.VERSION3 # Try a bind to provoke failure if protocol version is not supported l.bind_s('','',ldap.AUTH_SIMPLE) # Close connection l.unbind_s()