From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T03:30:52+09:00
Subject: Re: active directory

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On 9/26/07, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss <celtic@sairyx.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 04:06 +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
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> > Is there any ruby library that will let me authenticate against an
> > active directory server from a linux machine? I looked through the AD
> > gems but the documentation assumed that I knew what I was doing
> > already, and *seemed* to imply that I needed to be running this from a
> > windows box sitting in a windows domain.
>
>
>
> I recently had this problem.



Some users have found Net::LDAP simpler because it doesn't require the
installation of an outboard LDAP library. Here's how the equivalent solution
might look in Net::LDAP (as you said, "your schema may vary"):


require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ldap'

ldap = Net::LDAP.new
ldap.host = your_server_ip_address
ldap.port = your_server_port # typically 389 or 3268 for A/D
ldap.auth "CN=John Smith,CN=Users,dc=yourcompany,dc=com", "a-password"

ldap.search(
            :filter=>"sAMAccountName=John Smith",
            :attributes=>[:memberOf],
            :base=>"cn=Users,dc=yourcompany,dc=com",
           ) {|entry|
     p entry[:memberof]
}

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