On Aug 5, 2005, at 3:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for someone who can provide some limited consultation for > a Python project we're doing in in the IT dept at my place > of employment (OMS). In particular, we have a Python client/server app > which needs to do Active Directory authentication from both Mac OS X > and Windows XP clients. > > The client Python app will take username and password input from the > user, and then contact the Active Directory to obtain credentials. The > client app will then pass the credentials to the server app, which > will inspect the credentials and provide appropriate authorizations. > The server app runs under Windows XP. > > We'd like to get this accomplished fairly soon, and expect lots of > folks have already done this sort of thing with Python in the Windows > realm. However, I'm worried that we're going to get stuck doing this > on the Mac. If anyone can help us with this part of the project, it > would be much appreciated. If you know how to do it on Windows as > well, > even better.
The generic way to do the authentication is just to use LDAP, since Active Directory is just a jazzed up LDAP database server with a non- standard Kerberos implementation. You can crib some code from LDAPUserFolder for the authentication bits. I'm not sure exactly what "obtaining credentials" involves, but I'm guessing that's just a Kerberos ticket? Mac OS X should have all the APIs to do it, since it has good Kerberos support which supposedly integrates well with Active Directory... you'll probably have to a C extension to get at that, but that should be no big deal. Good luck, I don't have any Windows Server machines around, and am not really interested in dealing with Windows... but hopefully somebody else can help you :) -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
