README.md

FedeRez LDAP web interface

webLDAP gives users access to their LDAP accounts and ease the management of such accounts by organization managers and administrators.

Technology

Views rely on libldap.py to issue LDAP requests. This library is built upon the python-ldap module.

South is used for database migrations.

This project differs quite a lot from usual Django projects because of the lack of ORM-style managers for LDAP. That's why the authentication backend and many useful Django modules are not used.

Architecture

This Django project is meant to be simple. One app accounts inside the ldap_server project.

Main files:

ldap_server/
    settings.py: project settings
    settings_local.sample.py: sample settings to be completed and renamed
accounts/
    libldap.py: LDAP helpers
    views.py: view functions (no class-based views)
    migrations: South migrations
    static/: static content

Install

See requirements.txt for what needs to be installed first.

• Edit settings_local_sample.py and save it as settings_local.py.

• Create database:

    python manage.py syncdb
    python manage.py migrate accounts
  

• Configure your web server or just run python manage.py runserver

And you're set!