Sambal is an experimental web interface for Samba and Active Directory domains using Pyramid.
At this point it is more just a proof of concept.
It requires the latest version of Samba master compiled from source, or Samba 4.21 when released.
At this point I just create a virtualenv and copy the compiled Samba files inside it, it's crude but works.
python3 -m venv venv
cp -R samba/bin/python/* venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .Make sure you change the python version in the path to match your system.
You will need a Redis server for sessions which must be properly secured. See the Configuration page on the Wiki for more details.
To start a development server just run:
python -m sambalOr use the entrypoint installed into the virtualenv:
sambalThe web interface can then be accessed at http://localhost:8000
To start a production server, first install sambal without -e as that is meant to be used for development only.
pip install .Then also install gunicorn and run:
pip install gunicorn
gunicorn sambal:app -w 4To run the tests first make sure the optional dependency group called test
is installed:
pip install -e .[test]The tests need a real Redis instance and a Samba host or Active Directory domain to connect to as the Administrator or admin user.
WARNING: The tests will be creating users and various other objects on the domain, so should never be run against a production server.
The Makefile contains the lint and test commands which run pytest and ruff:
make lint
make testTo autoformat the code using ruff and fix linting errors use make format.
Coverage reports end up in the reports folder.
Pyramid is an older framework, but it is super flexible, and we do have quite a bit of experience with it. But the primary reason is that it supports both URL-Dispatch and Traversal.
In this project we want to investigate using Traversal and mapping URL parts to a DN seems to make sense.
Sambal is released under the GPL v3 license which is the same license that Samba uses.