Importing LDAP users into django database

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I want to import the users of a ActiveDirectory database into Django. To this end I'm trying to use the django_auth_ldap module.

Here is what I tried already :

in my settings.py :

AUTH_LDAP_SERVER_URI = "ldap://example.fr"

AUTH_LDAP_BIND_DN = 'cn=a_user,dc=example,dc=fr'
AUTH_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD=''
AUTH_LDAP_USER_SEARCH = LDAPSearch('ou=users,dc=example,dc=fr', ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, '(uid=%(user)s)')
AUTH_LDAP_GROUP_SEARCH = LDAPSearch('ou=groups,dc=example,dc=fr', ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, '(objectClass=groupOfNames)')

AUTH_LDAP_GROUP_TYPE = ActiveDirectoryGroupType()

#Populate the Django user from the LDAP directory
AUTH_LDAP_USER_ATTR_MAP = {
    'first_name': 'sAMAccountName',
    'last_name': 'displayName',
    'email': 'mail'
}


AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django_auth_ldap.backend.LDAPBackend',
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)

Then I call python manage.py syncdb with no result. No warning, no error, nothing updataed in the auth_user table. Is there something obvious I forgot to do ?

django-auth-ldap ldap active-directory django
3 Answers

I needed to do something similar, and found the LDAPBackend.populate_user(user_name) API useful.

from django_auth_ldap.backend import LDAPBackend
user = LDAPBackend().populate_user('user_name')

Given each call is going to issue LDAP queries and a bunch of DB select/ updated/ insert queries, this is more suited to getting or creating occasional users (for masquerading as them/ check how the app looks for them) rather than bulk creating them.

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