Active_Ldap Base Config Question

[jackster the jackle]

I haven't done much with polling AD in the past but I am now trying to
write a basic script using active_ldap that pulls a list of users from
AD. The following code I have here doesn't work but the thing that
bothers me the most is that when I use a sniffer on the AD server, I
don't see any attempt by the script to communicate with the server.

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_ldap'

ActiveLdap::Base.setup_connection(
:host => "10.1.1.1",
:user => "admin",
assword => "password",
:base => "dc=voice,dc=company,dc=com"
)
all_users = Group.findall, '*')
puts all_users


The actual error I get is:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:443:in
`load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Group (NameError)

Any ideas as to why this basic config isn't working?

Thanks

jack

 

[Sven Schott]

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Haven't used that particular gem (I use ActiveDirectory myself) but it looks
like just a namespace issue. You haven't included the namespace therefore
you would require the full object path e.g. ActiveLdap::Group.findall,
"*")

 

[jackster the jackle]

Putting in the full object path renders the same error message, I'm
afraid.

To be honest, I don't have a preference toward Active_Ldap, I just
thought that it was the most common way to do AD lookups but if
ActiveDirectory works for you, can you please give me a link to the
binary (unleass it's a gem?) and perhaps a sample of a base config?

thanks

jack

 

[Sven Schott]

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Ah, my bad. For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear,
simple and wrong

The ActiveDirectory lib works for me but hasn't been updated in a while. It
can be found at:

http://code.google.com/p/ruby-activedirectory/

Setup is fairly much the same:

ActiveDirectory::Base.server_settings = {
:host => "hostname or ip address",
ort => 3268,
:username => "username",
assword => "password",
:domain => "your.ad.domain.here",
:base_dn => "DC=your,DC=base,DC=dn"
}

But I get the feeling that you might have the same issue. I seem to remember
that this was a rails+gem version problem since I had this this same issue
with the activedirectory gem once upon a time. What version of rails are you
using? Did you upgrade it recently?

 

[Sven Schott]

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Sorry I just assumed: are you running rails? That's what I was using it with
so I just made the assumption. Better question: What version of ruby and gem
are you running?

Ah, my bad. For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear,
simple and wrong

The ActiveDirectory lib works for me but hasn't been updated in a while. It
can be found at:

http://code.google.com/p/ruby-activedirectory/

Setup is fairly much the same:

ActiveDirectory::Base.server_settings = {
:host => "hostname or ip address",
ort => 3268,
:username => "username",
assword => "password",
:domain => "your.ad.domain.here",
:base_dn => "DC=your,DC=base,DC=dn"
}

But I get the feeling that you might have the same issue. I seem to
remember that this was a rails+gem version problem since I had this this
same issue with the activedirectory gem once upon a time. What version of
rails are you using? Did you upgrade it recently?

 

[jackster the jackle]

Sorry I just assumed: are you running rails? That's what I was using it
with
so I just made the assumption. Better question: What version of ruby and
gem
are you running?

Yes, I'm running this directly through ruby version 1.8.6.

Gems is version 1.3.5

thanks

 

[Sven Schott]

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I just installed and tried it and got the same thing. I read the docs and
found that you need to subclass Base to get a mapping. e.g.

class User < ActiveLdap::Base
ldap_mapping
end

And the config is different. So here is what I got so far:

require 'active_ldap'

ActiveLdap::Base.setup_connection(
:host => "hostname",
:bind_dn => "username",
assword => "passwords",
:base => "DC=your,DC=ldap,DC=base"
)

class User < ActiveLdap::Base
ldap_mapping
end

That gets me the connection at least.

Sorry I just assumed: are you running rails? That's what I was using it
with so I just made the assumption. Better question: What version of ruby
and gem are you running?

 

[jackster the jackle]

unfortunately, that doesn't give me a tcp connection either....but
thanks for the effort

jack

 

[Kouhei Sutou]

Hi,

In <[email protected]>
"Active_Ldap Base Config Question" on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:39:28 +0900,

I haven't done much with polling AD in the past but I am now trying to
write a basic script using active_ldap that pulls a list of users from
AD. The following code I have here doesn't work but the thing that
bothers me the most is that when I use a sniffer on the AD server, I
don't see any attempt by the script to communicate with the server.

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_ldap'

ActiveLdap::Base.setup_connection(
:host => "10.1.1.1",
:user => "admin",
assword => "password",
:base => "dc=voice,dc=company,dc=com"
)
all_users = Group.findall, '*')
puts all_users


The actual error I get is:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:443:in
`load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Group (NameError)

Any ideas as to why this basic config isn't working?

You need to define your Group class:
class Group < ActiveLdap::Base
ldap_mapping :dn_attribute => "cn",
:classes => ['posixGroup']
# Inspired by ActiveRecord, this tells ActiveLDAP that the
# LDAP entry has a attribute which contains one or more of
# some class |:class_name| where the attributes name is
# |:local_key|. This means that it will call
# :class_name.new(value_oflocal_key)) to create the objects.
has_many :members, :class_name => "User", :wrap => "memberUid"
has_many rimary_members, :class_name => 'User',
:foreign_key => 'gidNumber',
rimary_key => 'gidNumber'
end # Group

# from http://code.google.com/p/ruby-activeldap/source/browse/trunk/examples/objects/group.rb

I confused the lines:

all_users = Group.findall, '*')
puts all_users

Did you want to write like the following?
all_groups = Group.all
puts all_groups


Thanks,