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Welcome to the project page of Python-AD. Python-AD is an AD client for the Python programming language. It is free software, released under the MIT license.

News

  • 16-Nov-2011: Moved to github.
  • 2-Nov-2008: Version 0.9 has been released. It includes bugfixes and a limited amount of new functionality.
  • 31-Oct-2008: Migrated Python-AD to Google Code.
  • 7-Dec-2007: The first public release, version 0.8, has been released.

Features

Python-AD has the following features:

  • Auto-discovery of domain controllers, optimised for taking into account network topology and timing.
  • Easy handling of Kerberos credentials, independent of system configuration (i.e. no valid /etc/krb5.conf is required).
  • Transparent multi-domain functionality. Can transparently query any naming context in an AD forest.
  • Paged results according to RFC2696.
  • Incremental retrieval of multi-valued attributes as per draft-kashi-incremental-00.txt.
  • Serverless binding and server specific binding.
  • Support for querying the global catalog.
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