LDAP lookup

[sparunakian]

Hi,

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

LDAP lookup

SUMMARY

A LDAP lookup would be quite useful to get information from a LDAP server. A use case would be the creation of users queried from the LDAP server.

There already is a community LDAP lookup at https://github.com/quinot/ansible-plugin-lookup_ldap which works very well. The author would be ok with the integration of his lookup: quinot/ansible-plugin-lookup_ldap/issues/11

Regards

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[ericwb]

Is the author interested in creating a pull request? I think that might be a good way to get this feature moving along. I also see value in it.

[fzimmermann89]

Unfortunately it's unlikely that the author will create a pull request:
quinot/ansible-plugin-lookup_ldap#11 (comment)

I do not intend to submit this to Ansible, but if someone else feels like investing the time and effort it would take to get the Ansible team to consider it for integration, they should feel free to do so.

[ghost]

The mentioned plugin is a big pile of messy code with a bad API, no tests and at least one known bug, it won't be wise to merge to ansible.

[maxbback]

we need a simple ldap lookup module
basicaly a cn matching

[momcilo78]

Friendly feedback from the outsider (who found this page by looking for precisely this kind of module):

It looks like this plugin is based on the python-ldap. The main drawback is that this requires the binaries (which in turn would make the ansible module less portable):
https://www.python-ldap.org/en/latest/installing.html#pre-built-binaries

I have used this library in the past, until I encountered the portability issues with different platforms (e.g. Windows).

Since then I have switched to ldap3 which python implementation and does not depend on any C/C++ binaries:
https://pypi.org/project/ldap3/

[sivel]

Thank you very much for your interest in Ansible. We are no longer accepting new modules or plugins in this repository.

You may wish to submit this feature request to https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general

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