susundberg
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9 years ago Hi! My sorries for late response.
No not really, i think this project should stay as django - sasl-authentication backend.
The backend does search on the current user, and if you just want the same search with different user, check the current search:
ldap_result_id = connection.search( self.ldap_settings.SEARCH_DN , ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, self.ldap_settings.SEARCH_FILTER % { "user" : username })
result_all_type, result_all_data = connection.result(ldap_result_id, 1)For more resourses, i suggest you to dig into the main python ldap-module documentation (that are not too great, unfortunately): http://www.python-ldap.org/docs.shtml
I suggest you copy/paste/fork the code and use it as you see best fit.
First, sorry for filing an issue for this, but I could not find another way of contacting you. I would like to add functionality to this module to be able to look up user information (first_name, email, etc.) for arbitrary users, not just the currently logged in user.
I think what needs to be done is implementing an LDAPSearch class. I would just like to know before I try to look into this: would you want something like this in such a lightweight module? And: What source should I be looking at for the official protocol for implementing such a search?