suseapi.userinfo

This module allows remote access to LDAP. It wraps standard Python module for LDAP and provides some convenience functions.

class suseapi.userinfo.UserInfo(server, base)

Parameters:

• server (string) – Server address
• base (string) – Search base

LDAP class wrapping ldap access.

search_uid(uid, attribs=None)

Parameters:

• uid (string) – Search string
• attribs (list of strings) – Attributes to read from LDAP, defaults to [‘cn’, ‘mail’, ‘ou’, ‘sn’, ‘givenName’]

Return type:

list of dictionaries

Returns:

Search results

Performs UID search and returns list of search results.

search_by(attr, val, attribs=None)

Parameters:

• attr – attribute name to search by
• val – value of the attribute to search for
• attribs – attributes to return

Performs search by any attribute.

get_department(user)

Parameters:user (string) – Search string Return type:string Returns:Department name, N/A in case it was not found.

Performs LDAP search and grabs department name from it. Additionally some fixups are applied to department names to avoid more names for single department.

class suseapi.userinfo.DjangoUserInfo(server, base)

Wrapper around suseapi.userinfo.UserInfo class to use Django settings and cache results in Django cache.