django-ldapdb-pyldap

django-ldapdb - support for django models over LDAP
Copyright (c) 2009-2011, Bolloré Telecom
Copyright (c) 2013, Jeremy Lainé

About

django-ldapdb is an LDAP database backend for Django. It allows you to manipulate LDAP entries using Django's models. Declaring models using the LDAP backend is very straightforward, you simply inherit from ldapdb.models.Model and declare the fields in the same way as for regular models. You can even edit the LDAP entries using Django's admin interface.

django-ldapdb requires Django version 1.2.x, 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x or 1.8.x.

django-ldapdb is distributed under the BSD license, see the LICENSE file for details. See AUTHORS file for a full list of contributors.

Using django-ldapdb

Add the following to your settings.py:

DATABASES = {
    ...
    'ldap': {
        'ENGINE': 'ldapdb.backends.ldap',
        'NAME': 'ldap://ldap.nodomain.org/',
        'USER': 'cn=admin,dc=nodomain,dc=org',
        'PASSWORD': 'some_secret_password',
     }
 }
DATABASE_ROUTERS = ['ldapdb.router.Router']

If you want to access posixGroup entries in your application, you can add something like this to your models.py:

from ldapdb.models.fields import CharField, IntegerField, ListField
import ldapdb.models

class LdapGroup(ldapdb.models.Model):
    """
    Class for representing an LDAP group entry.
    """
    # LDAP meta-data
    base_dn = "ou=groups,dc=nodomain,dc=org"
    object_classes = ['posixGroup']

    # posixGroup attributes
    gid = IntegerField(db_column='gidNumber', unique=True)
    name = CharField(db_column='cn', max_length=200, primary_key=True)
    members = ListField(db_column='memberUid')

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name

Important note : you must declare an attribute to be used as the primary key. This attribute will play a special role, as it will be used to build the Relative Distinguished Name of the entry. For instance in the example above, a group whose cn is foo will have the DN cn=foo,ou=groups,dc=nodomain,dc=org.