How to use django_auth_ldap for django project? - django

Question

The following is the snippet of the setting for our project.The problem is that it did not seem like it is connecting to the LDAP server. I added a couple print statement in the django_auth_ldap module and none of them is printed out when I run the server and try to log in.
Can any body help look at the setting and give some idea what went wrong?
settings.py
import ldap
from django_auth_ldap.config import LDAPSearch, GroupOfNamesType
AUTH_LDAP_SERVER_URI = "ldap://ldap.corperate.com:port"
AUTH_LDAP_BIND_DN = "CN=Network Inventory Management,OU=Service Accounts,DC=corperate,DC=com"
AUTH_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD = "PASSWORD"
AUTH_LDAP_CONNECTION_OPTIONS={
ldap.OPT_DEBUG_LEVEL:1,
ldap.OPT_REFERRALS:0,
}
AUTH_LDAP_USER_SEARCH = LDAPSearch("ou=accounts,dc=corperate,dc=com",ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "(sAMAccountName=%(user)s)")
AUTH_LDAP_GROUP_SEARCH = LDAPSearch("ou=groups,dc=corperate,dc=com", ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "(objectClass=groupOfNames)")
AUTH_LDAP_GROUP_TYPE = GroupOfNamesType(name_attr="cn")
AUTH_LDAP_USER_ATTR_MAP = {
"user_id": "employeeid",
"first_name": "givenName",
"last_name": "sn",
"email": "mail"
}
AUTH_LDAP_PROFILE_ATTR_MAP = {
"location":"physicalDeliveryOfficeName",
"employee_id":"employeeID",
"phone":"telephoneNumber",
"account_status":"userAccountControl",
"employee_id":"employeeID",
"distinguished_name":"distinguishedName",
}
AUTH_LDAP_USER_FLAGS_BY_GROUP = {
"is_staff": "CN=Network Inventory Management Group,OU=django,OU=Groups,DC=corperate,DC=com",}
AUTH_LDAP_ALWAYS_UPDATE_USER = True
AUTH_LDAP_FIND_GROUP_PERMS = True
AUTH_LDAP_CACHE_GROUPS = True
AUTH_LDAP_GROUP_CACHE_TIMEOUT = 3600
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
'django_auth_ldap.backend.LDAPBackend',
'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
)
LOGGING = {
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': False,
'handlers': {
'mail_admins': {
'level': 'ERROR',
'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
},
'stream_to_console': {
'level': 'DEBUG',
'class': 'logging.StreamHandler'
},
},
'loggers': {
'django.request': {
'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
'level': 'ERROR',
'propagate': True,
},
'django_auth_ldap': {
'handlers': ['stream_to_console'],
'level': 'DEBUG',
'propagate': True,
},
}
}

Answer 1

any error message ?
Enabling logging might help. Put this in the settings file:
import logging, logging.handlers
logfile = "/tmp/django-ldap-debug.log"
my_logger = logging.getLogger('django_auth_ldap')
my_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(
logfile, maxBytes=1024 * 500, backupCount=5)
my_logger.addHandler(handler)
and
tail -f /tmp/django-ldap-debug.log