Adding entries to ldap - PyLDAP

In my previous post I explained on how we connect to ldap server and query the ldap server through python and ldap bindings. Today let us see how we add and delete entries from the ldap server using the same python and ldap bindings

Tthe add_entry function,

def add_entry(self,machine_name):
try:
self.dn=’mc=’+machine_name+’,dc=udms,dc=com’
self.modlist=[]
self.modlist.append((‘objectClass’,['top','udms']))
self.modlist.append((‘mc’,machine_name))
self.modlist.append((‘ip’,’192.168.1.4′))self.ldms_var.add_s(self.dn,self.modlist)
print “Machine “+machine_name+” added”
except ldap.LDAPError,error_message:
print error_message

Here we create a dictionary of the attributes and their values and pass to ldap’s add_s function along with the distinguished name (dn)

The delete_entry function,

def delete_entry(self,machine_name):
try:
self.dn=’mc=’+machine_name+’,dc=udms,dc=com’
self.ldms_var.delete_s(self.dn)
print “Machine “+machine_name+” removed”
except ldap.LDAPError,error_message:
print error_message

Here we specify only the distinguished name (dn) to the ldap’s delete_s function

If you take the normal ldapadd and ldapdelete commands, you could easily figure out what we are doing with pyldap

ldapadd example,

ldapadd -x -W -D “cn=admin,dc=udms,dc=com” -f ldapuser.ldif

The ldapuser.ldif has all the attributes and dn specified.

ldapdelete example,

ldapdelete -x -W -D “cn=admin,dc=udms,dc=com” “mc=client2,dc=udms,dc=com”

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