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LDAP Authentication for OpenERP

December 4, 2013/in Post /by Kitti Upariphutthiphong

LDAP Authentication is pretty easy. It is a well written addons and it just work out of the box. Here is how,

Prerequisite:

Have python-ldap library installed.
In OpenERP, install addons auth_ldap

Note:

For Windows, the easiest way to have python-ldap is via binary file, downloaded fromwww.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#python-ldap
For Linux, simply type in the command line, > sudo apt-get install python-ldap

OpenERP 7 Setup for LDAP

After install auth_ldap addon, go to Companies and add new LDAP Parameters.
An example shown below,

Simple Python Script to test LDAP connection

Here is the pure python code, you can simply create a .py file and execute with python on command line.

import ldap
try:
    conn = ldap.initialize("ldap://10.226.1.86:389")
    conn.simple_bind_s("cn=USER,ou=People,dc=idm,dc=ldap","PASSWORD")
    print 'Success'
except ldap.LDAPError, e:
    print e