LDAP

Module ldap

This plugin extracts the following:

• People
• Names, emails, titles, and manager information for each person
• List of groups

Install the Plugin

pip install 'acryl-datahub[ldap]'

Quickstart Recipe

Check out the following recipe to get started with ingestion! See below for full configuration options.

For general pointers on writing and running a recipe, see our main recipe guide

source:
  type: "ldap"
  config:
    # Coordinates
    ldap_server: ldap://localhost

    # Credentials
    ldap_user: "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=org"
    ldap_password: "admin"

    # Options
    base_dn: "dc=example,dc=org"

sink:
  # sink configs

Config Details

Options

Note that a . is used to denote nested fields in the YAML recipe.

View All Configuration Options

Field	Required	Type	Description	Default
ldap_server	✅	string	LDAP server URL.	None
ldap_user	✅	string	LDAP user.	None
ldap_password	✅	string	LDAP password.	None
base_dn	✅	string	LDAP DN.	None
filter		string	LDAP extractor filter.	(objectClass=*)
drop_missing_first_last_name		boolean	If set to true, any users without first and last names will be dropped.	True
page_size		integer	Size of each page to fetch when extracting metadata.	20
user_attrs_map		Dict		{}
group_attrs_map		Dict		{}

Schema

The JSONSchema for this configuration is inlined below.

{
  "title": "LDAPSourceConfig",
  "description": "Config used by the LDAP Source.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "ldap_server": {
      "title": "Ldap Server",
      "description": "LDAP server URL.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "ldap_user": {
      "title": "Ldap User",
      "description": "LDAP user.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "ldap_password": {
      "title": "Ldap Password",
      "description": "LDAP password.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "base_dn": {
      "title": "Base Dn",
      "description": "LDAP DN.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "filter": {
      "title": "Filter",
      "description": "LDAP extractor filter.",
      "default": "(objectClass=*)",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "drop_missing_first_last_name": {
      "title": "Drop Missing First Last Name",
      "description": "If set to true, any users without first and last names will be dropped.",
      "default": true,
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "page_size": {
      "title": "Page Size",
      "description": "Size of each page to fetch when extracting metadata.",
      "default": 20,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "user_attrs_map": {
      "title": "User Attrs Map",
      "default": {},
      "type": "object"
    },
    "group_attrs_map": {
      "title": "Group Attrs Map",
      "default": {},
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "ldap_server",
    "ldap_user",
    "ldap_password",
    "base_dn"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Code Coordinates

• Class Name: datahub.ingestion.source.ldap.LDAPSource
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Questions

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