I'm working on a Django-based application in a corporate environment and would like to use the existing Active Directory system for authentication of users (so they don't get yet another login/password combo). I would also like to continue to use Django's user authorization / permission system to manage user capabilities.
Does anyone have a good example of this?
Here's another more recent snippet (July 2008, updated Dec 2015):
The link provided by Jeff indeed works though it assumes you have a you have a default group where users are added to. I simply replaced:
group=Group.objects.get(pk=1)
by
group,created=Group.objects.get_or_create(name="everyone")
If you want tighter integration & more features there is also django-auth-ldap which gives you you more control over how ldap users/group are mapped onto django users/groups.
For debugging the ldap connection I found this blog post useful, in particular the command for testing the ldap connection with ldap-utils:
ldapsearch -H ldaps://ldap-x.companygroup.local:636 -D "CN=Something LDAP,OU=Random Group,DC=companygroup,DC=local" -w "p4ssw0rd" -v -d 1
If you are using ssl there is also the issue of getting hold of a certificate will play nice with. Either you extract it from the server, or you can follow these instructions to generate your own.
I had the same problem, and noticed that django-auth-ldap does not support SASL at all -> plain text passwords over the connection if TSL is not available.
Here is what i did for the problem: https://github.com/susundberg/django-auth-ldap-ad
You can subclass the django-auth-ldap backend to add AD capabilities over with SASL or Kerberos or whatever. Here's a 2018 example working in Django 2.1:
