Creating LDAP (specifically, Active Directory) records

Rails
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Has anyone done anything with creating LDAP records? I’ve got an app
that needs to talk to my AD domain and ideally create new accounts,
but I’m having a hard time finding information on if anyone has
published anything regarding the creation of new accounts.

–
Sterling A.
sterling [at] sterlinganderson.net
http://sterlinganderson.net/
608.239.8387

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Sterling A. wrote:

Has anyone done anything with creating LDAP records? I’ve got an app
that needs to talk to my AD domain and ideally create new accounts,
but I’m having a hard time finding information on if anyone has
published anything regarding the creation of new accounts.

–
Sterling A.
sterling [at] sterlinganderson.net
http://sterlinganderson.net/
608.239.8387

If you’re talking about how to actually create LDAP records using Ruby,
look at the Net::LDAP library on Rubyforge, specifically the
Net::LDAP#add and #modify methods. If your question relates to
integrating with Rails, or to peculiarities of AD, then please ask a
more specific question.

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I’ve done a bit of work on this (querying only)

Here are some resources…
http://ruby-ldap.sourceforge.net/
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-activeldap/

On 12/19/06 3:15 PM, “Sterling A.” [email protected]

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Sterling A. wrote:

Has anyone done anything with creating LDAP records? I’ve got an app
that needs to talk to my AD domain and ideally create new accounts,
but I’m having a hard time finding information on if anyone has
published anything regarding the creation of new accounts.

–
Sterling A.
sterling [at] sterlinganderson.net
http://sterlinganderson.net/
608.239.8387

Another thing I just thought of: if you’re creating records, you need to
obey the schema constraints. (Practically, there are certain required
attributes you will need to populate in order to successfully add the
record.) In A/D, some of these are built in, and you may also have some
local ones you need to worry about.

I gave an incorrect link to Net::LDAP upthread. In Rubyforge, look for
net-ldap.

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Is there an update to the ruby-net-ldap package? I was hoping a new
release was out that would allow storing the returned object or record
in a session. I asked about this a few months ago and you mentioned a
newer release soon to be out. However, I recently checked and still no
joy. I’m sure your busy but is there an ETA.

Thanks,
Phill

On Dec 20 2006, 12:32 pm, Francis C.