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[ANN] python-ldap (1.10alpha3) RPMs for RedHat 7.0

[Mirko Z. <mi...@pi...>]

Hello everybody,

I just put together RPMS for python-ldap, built on RedHat 7.0:
- python 1.5 and 2.0
- openldap 1.2.11
available at: http://www.webideal.de/ldap

When rebuilding the src-rpm setting the environment variable PYTHON will
influence the build:

env PYTHON=python2.0 rpm --rebuild python-ldap-XXX.src.rpm

will produce an python2.0-RPM. Even the RPMs will have different names, so you
may install the package for both Python 1.5 and 2.0.

Best Regards
Mirko Zeibig
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Re: Compile problems

[<dir...@di...>]

da...@se... wrote:

> ldap_open was not found.  I next used the openldap.sh script and provided
> that path and get:

> checking for library containing ldap_open... no
> checking for ldap_open... no
> configure: error: Couldn't find LDAP library

You need openldap-1.x installed, at least the shared libs.
Openldap-2.x muts be called with ldap_init ...

kind regards Dirk

- Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany

Compile problems

[<da...@se...>]

I have openldap install in my ld path according to ldconfig and yet I can
not get ./configure --with-ldap=/usr/local/lib to see it. It reports that
ldap_open was not found.  I next used the openldap.sh script and provided
that path and get:

Using LDAP libraries from /tmp/ldap-pfx/lib
Using LDAP includes from /tmp/ldap-pfx/include
checking for library containing ber_free... -llber
checking for library containing ldap_open... no
checking for ldap_open... no
configure: error: Couldn't find LDAP library

I using linux, 2.2.18 kernel and gcc 2.95.1.


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Problem with modify in python-LDAP

[Jean-Eric C. <Jea...@li...>]

Hi,
Would anyone try this little program?
LDAPSearch.find() works great but I always have these errors when updating (
LDAPEntry.commit() ):
Modlist: [(2, 'loginshell', ['/bin/bash', '/bin/ash'])]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./class_test.py", line 98, in ?
    entry.commit();
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/python-ldap/ldap/entry.py", line
254, in commit
    self.connection._modify(self.dn, mod)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/python-ldap/ldap/connection.py",
line 63, in _modify
    self.__connection.modify_s(self.__check_base(dn), modlist)
ldap.LDAPError:  / Ld-error: 0 / Result: 21 / Invalid syntax

Thanks
-jec

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Re: Question in LDAPEntry.set()

[Federico Di G. <fo...@mi...>]

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Jean-Eric Cuendet's letter:

> But I can't modify them.
> I'm unable to use the LDAPEntry.set() method.
> Could someone explain me what means:
>   def set(self, key, *values):
> The star (*) before "values" ?
> What should be the type of this parameter? And the value?

in ldap you can have the same field/attribute repeated more that once. 
if you give .set() a list, it will generate multiple attributes with
the same name but different values, e.g., 

	entry.set('cn', ['Federico', 'fog])

note that you are using my first try at a high level python interface.
after some comments on this list i begun to slowly rewrite this api
following the java-ldap api. so, you are using something that will go
away in the future...

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Jean-Eric Cuendet's letter:
> 
> Just another thing:
> When I run my program (attached), I have the following error:
> Begin changing
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./class_test.py", line 79, in ?
>     res.set("gecos", list);
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/python-ldap/ldap/entry.py", line
> 133, in set
>     self.data[key] = (self.data[key][0]+values, 1)
> TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "tuple") to list 

you gave it a tuple, .set() only accept lists.

ciao,
federico

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LDAP python error

[Jean-Eric C. <Jea...@li...>]

Just another thing:
When I run my program (attached), I have the following error:
Begin changing
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./class_test.py", line 79, in ?
    res.set("gecos", list);
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/python-ldap/ldap/entry.py", line
133, in set
    self.data[key] = (self.data[key][0]+values, 1)
TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "tuple") to list 

Could someone help me?
Thanks
-jec

Question in LDAPEntry.set()

[Jean-Eric C. <Jea...@li...>]

Hi,
I'm new to this list and very interested in LDAP-python.
I have some problems with it. I use CVS version and I'm able to get entries
from the LDAP repository.

But I can't modify them.
I'm unable to use the LDAPEntry.set() method.
Could someone explain me what means:
  def set(self, key, *values):
The star (*) before "values" ?
What should be the type of this parameter? And the value?

I'm using Python 2.0 + OpenLDAP 2.0.7, is there problems with this
combination or is everything OK?

Thanks
-jec

Re: Python LDAP / LDIF

[Michael <mi...@st...>]

Greg Wilson wrote:
> 
> The "ldif.py" file included with your distribution seems
> to translate LDIF to and from Python dicts;

You're on the right track:
l.search() / l.result or l.search_s() returns a list of tuples of DN
and Python dict which you can convert into LDIF with
ldif.CreateLDIF().

> does the main
> library contain a function or functions that I could use
> to push and pull LDIF with the server?

Pulling/pushing directly LDIF wouldn't make much sense since the
LDAP servers are already shipped with tools which do exactly this.

But feel free to dig into http://www.web2ldap.de to see how I'm
doing it.
(Module w2lsearch, w2ladd - not very pretty code though.)

Ciao, Michael.

New snapshot web2ldap-20010316

[Michael <mi...@st...>]

HI!

There's a new snapshot of web2ldap available at

  http://www.web2ldap.de/download.html

The change history can be found here:

  http://www.web2ldap.de/changes.html

Please test it. At least by using the on-line demo at

  http://sites.inka.de:8002/web2ldap

Ciao, Michael.

Changes since last announced snapshot:
- fixed nasty bug in CGISession class which made web2ldap spawning
  three LDAP connections per access instead of one.

New snapshot web2ldap-20010315

[Michael <mi...@st...>]

HI!

There's a new snapshot of web2ldap available at

  http://www.web2ldap.de/download.html

The change history can be found here:

  http://www.web2ldap.de/changes.html

Please test it. At least by using the on-line demo at

  http://sites.inka.de:8002/web2ldap

Ciao, Michael.

Changes since last announced snapshot:
- hopefully more secure web session managment
- more changes in the UI
- internal URL redirector for secure URL linking
- bug fixing...

OpenLDAP2.0

[Magnus H. (Rivermen) <mag...@ri...>]

Hi.

Is support for OpenLDAP2.0 being worked on? Is there a roadmap available?


Maybe this has been asked before, but I just joined this mailinglist, and
the archives for 2001 on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/archives//python-ldap-dev/ is not available :-P

Thanks!

/Magnus Heino

Re: compiling against OpenLDAP 2.0.7

[Michael <mi...@st...>]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> the subject says it all... has anyone done it yet?

Two different patches are available. Check the list archive.
Not sure if they're compatible with recent changes.

Ciao, Michael.

Re: compiling against OpenLDAP 2.0.7

[Jens V. <je...@di...>]

i scoured the mailing list archives before and tried both patches, against =
a
fresh CVS checkout of python-ldap and against the latest released tarball.

no go. (apart from the fact that the patches did not work against the
release tarball, only against the CVS checkout)

jens


on 3/13/01 8:42, Michael Str=F6der at mi...@st... wrote:

> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>=20
>> the subject says it all... has anyone done it yet?
>=20
> Two different patches are available. Check the list archive.
> Not sure if they're compatible with recent changes.
>=20
> Ciao, Michael.
>=20

compiling against OpenLDAP 2.0.7

[Jens V. <je...@di...>]

the subject says it all... has anyone done it yet?

jens


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Re: Documentation for ldap 1.10

[David L. <dav...@cs...>]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Michael Str=F6der typed thusly:
> David Leonard wrote:
> > Attached is new documentation, built with Python 2.0's documentation to=
ols.
> Can you please upload the PDF file. People are asking for it...

http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/docs.php

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Re: Cygwin Patch

[Jason T. <Jas...@do...>]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:14:21AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> My Cygwin patches to Python have been accepted into Python CVS so
> Cygwin Python has supported shared extensions since 2.1a1.  I have
> redone my Cygwin python-ldap patch against the current python-ldap CVS.
> Please consider this patch for acceptance into python-ldap CVS.

David was kind enough to give me write access to python-ldap CVS.  So,
I just committed the above patch.

If the changes cause anyone some heartache, please holler.  Although
I don't expect any problems, since this patch is the same in spirit to a
few of my patches that have been applied to the Python standard modules.

Thanks,
Jason

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Re: Cygwin Patch

[Jason T. <Jas...@do...>]

My Cygwin patches to Python have been accepted into Python CVS so
Cygwin Python has supported shared extensions since 2.1a1.  I have
redone my Cygwin python-ldap patch against the current python-ldap CVS.
Please consider this patch for acceptance into python-ldap CVS.

The procedure to apply the patch is as follows:

    $ # save the attachment to /tmp
    $ cd python-ldap/Modules
    $ patch </tmp/cygwin.patch

See the following for my original posting:

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 09:37:50AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:27:49 +0100, David Leonard wrote:
> > 	* python-ldap-1.10 will be tidied up, with just the memory-leak
> > 	  patches applied, and a proper documentation build. (ie no v3
> > 	  changes will be applied as it breaks v2 builds.) A final release
> > 	  will be made.
> 
> Hopefully, the attached patch (against python-ldap-1.10alpha3) can
> still be considered for inclusion in the 1.10 final release.  It enables
> python-ldap to build OOTB as a shared extension for Cygwin Python.
> 
> Cygwin is an open-source POSIX emulation layer that enables many
> GNU and UNIX tools to port to Windows without any source code changes.
> If interested, please see http://www.cygwin.com for more information.
> 
> Note that the patch has no functional changes -- it only enables the
> code to compile cleanly with Cygwin gcc.  Specifically, the changes
> are as follows:
> 
>     1. replaced #ifdef WIN32 with #if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__) 
>        as described in http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#3.24 
>     2. added DL_EXPORT to init_ldap() 
> 
> I'm quite willing to redo the patch against python-ldap CVS if that
> will facilitate its acceptance.
> 
> My original plan was to wait until the Cygwin Python DLL and Shared
> Extension Patch:
> 
>   http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=102409&group_id=5470
> 
> was accepted and committed into Python CVS before contacting the list.
> However, due to the impending 1.10 final release, I realized that it
> would be prudent to submit the patch sooner rather than later.

Thanks,
Jason

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What's up with the archives?

[Nicola L. <n.l...@ec...>]

Okay, the ping went through, so the list is active.

But the archives end on December, 15! What's going on?

(Archives at http://lists.sourceforge.net/archives//python-ldap-dev/ .)


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ping

[Nicola L. <n.l...@ec...>]

ping :^)

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Re: newbie

[Michael <mi...@st...>]

oop...@ne... wrote:
> 
> can anyone tell me how do i obtain the dn of entry
> from the search result

The search result is a tuple of the form

(dn,entry)

The entry is a dictionary of value list with the name of the
attribute type as dictionary key:

{attrtype:[value]}

Hence you have a search result in variable result. Doing a

print repr(result)

does help a lot to find out how the data is structured.

Ciao, Michael.

newbie

[<oop...@ne...>]

hello all
can anyone tell me how do i obtain the dn of entry 
from the search result
when i give a filter to the search method.
please help

ritu

Re: newbie help

[Michael <mi...@st...>]

oop...@ne... wrote:
> 
> i have pone more question here
> when i search an entry with a filter as uid=1111 i get all the atrribute and
> value list
> i dont want that i only want to get the dn of entry formed from the search
> result

Set attrslist=[] and attrsonly=1 when calling search or search_s.
Read the fine docs.

Ciao, Michael.

Re: newbie help

[Michael <mi...@st...>]

oop...@ne... wrote:
> 
> except _ldap.LDAPError:
>        pass

Are you sure that you don't want to see any LDAP-related error if
anything goes wrong?

>     l.modify_s(dn,_ldap.MOD_REPLACE,[('cn',["fgs"])])
> TypeError: function requires exactly 2 arguments; 3 given

l.modify_s(dn,[(_ldap.MOD_REPLACE,'cn',["fgs"])])

BTW: Import module ldap instead of _ldap and please read the fine
docs.

Ciao, Michael.

newbie help

[<oop...@ne...>]

thanks for such a fast reply

i have pone more question here
when i search an entry with a filter as uid=1111 i get all the atrribute and
value list 
i dont want that i only want to get the dn of entry formed from the search
result

how do i do this 

please help

ritu

Re: newbie help

[David L. <dav...@cs...>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, oop...@ne... typed thusly:

> hi
> please some one help i am new to python
> i want to perform a modify operation on the cn attribute of th dn
> "mail=11...@nd...,dc=ndd,dc=com"
> for that my script is
>
>
>         l.modify_s(dn,_ldap.MOD_REPLACE,[('cn',["fgs"])])
>
> TypeError: function requires exactly 2 arguments; 3 given
>
> pl tell me the correct syntax of how i should do ir

On the line immediately before your modify_s() call, put this line:

	print l.modify_s.__doc__

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