This page explains the Python-AD installation.

Prerequisites

Python-AD depends on the following software packages. These must be installed before Python-AD can be installed or used.

• Python >= 2.2.
• Python-LDAP >= ''unknown''
• Support for paged results is required.
• Ensure your OpenLDAP installation has support for SASL/GSSAPI. On Red Hat based distributions this means you need to install the cyrus-sasl-gssapi package.
• dnspython >= ''unknown''. Used for looking up DNS SRV records.
• PLY >= ''unknown''. PLY is used for parsing LDAP search filters.
• MIT Kerberos >= 1.3
• Version 1.6 or higher, which implements server-side canonicalisation, is greatly recommended.
• Nose is used for running the unit tests.

Installation

Because Python-AD uses distutils, installation is easy:

$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install

Testing

Python-AD comes with an extensive test suite. To run the tests, you first need the py.test tool from the py library. Follow the steps below to run the tests:

$ cp test.conf.example test.conf
$ vi test.conf
$ eval `python env.py`
$ python setup.py test

The file test.conf contains the test configuration. A lot of options are available for e.g. testing Python-AD against a real Active Directory. Please see inside this file for help on how to enable these tests.