Reading and writing LDAP

In this recipe, we will read and write from the FreeIPA LDAP demo server.

Getting ready

Install ldap3 Python client, the prerequisite for this recipe:

$ sudo pip install ldap3

How to do it...

First we will read LDAP with a Reader object as shown by Listing 11.8 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. 
# Adopted from http://ldap3.readthedocs.io/tutorial_abstraction_basic.html 
 
from ldap3 import Server, Connection, ObjectDef, AttrDef, Reader, Writer, ALL 
 
 
def main(): 
    server = Server('ipa.demo1.freeipa.org', get_info=ALL) 
    conn = Connection(server, 'uid=admin,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=demo1,dc=freeipa,dc=org', 'Secret123', auto_bind=True) 
    person = ObjectDef('person', conn) 
    r = Reader(conn, person, 'ou=ldap3-
               tutorial,dc=demo1,dc=freeipa,dc...