If you’re on .NET 3.5 or up, you can use the new System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement (S.DS.AM) namespace which makes this a lot easier than it used to be. Read all about it here: Managing Directory Security Principals in the .NET Framework 3.5 Update: older MSDN magazine articles aren’t online anymore, unfortunately – you’ll need to download the … Read more
There are 3 authentication protocols that can be used to perform authentication between Java and Active Directory on Linux or any other platform (and these are not just specific to HTTP services): Kerberos – Kerberos provides Single Sign-On (SSO) and delegation but web servers also need SPNEGO support to accept SSO through IE. NTLM – … Read more
You need to set DirectorySearcher.PageSize to a non-zero value to get all results. BTW you should also dispose DirectorySearcher when you’re finished with it using(var srch = new DirectorySearcher(dirEnt, “(objectClass=Group)”, loadProps)) { srch.PageSize = 1000; var results = srch.FindAll(); } The API documentation isn’t very clear, but essentially: when you do a paged search, the … Read more
Thirst thanks for this an interesting question. Next, just a correction, you say : I’ve looked into the following LDAP code to get all of the memberOf entries at once: (memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:={0}) You don’t make it work. I remember I make it work when I learnt about its existence, but it was in an LDIFDE.EXE filter. … Read more
You want the win32security module, which is a part of pywin32. Here’s an example of doing the sort of thing you want to do. That example creates a new DACL for the file and replaces the old one, but it’s easy to modify the existing one; all you need to do is get the existing … Read more
Refinement over Daniel’s response: HTTP Only Proxy configuration gradlew -Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 “-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=*.nonproxyrepos.com|localhost” HTTPS Only Proxy configuration gradlew -Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=3129 “-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=*.nonproxyrepos.com|localhost” Both HTTP and HTTPS Proxy configuration gradlew -Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 -Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=3129 “-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=*.nonproxyrepos.com|localhost” Proxy configuration with user and password gradlew -Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 – Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=3129 -Dhttps.proxyUser=user -Dhttps.proxyPassword=pass -Dhttp.proxyUser=user -Dhttp.proxyPassword=pass -Dhttp.nonProxyHosts=host1.com|host2.com worked for me (with gradle.properties in … Read more
Change the pattern string from “yyyy/MM/DD” to “yyyy/MM/dd” SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(“yyyy/MM/dd”);
If you are new to Active Directory, I suggest you should understand how Active Directory stores data first. Active Directory is actually a LDAP server. Objects stored in LDAP server are stored hierarchically. It’s very similar to you store your files in your file system. That’s why it got the name Directory server and Active … Read more
There is valuable information in the existing answers, but I think a more focused summary is helpful. Note that the original form of this answer advocated strict avoidance of script blocks ({…}) and AD-provider variable evaluation, but this has been replaced with more nuanced recommendations. tl;dr Get-ADUser -Filter ‘sAMAccountName -eq $SamAc’ Do not quote the … Read more
If you work on .NET 3.5 or newer, you can use the System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace and easily verify your credentials: // create a “principal context” – e.g. your domain (could be machine, too) using(PrincipalContext pc = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, “YOURDOMAIN”)) { // validate the credentials bool isValid = pc.ValidateCredentials(“myuser”, “mypassword”); } It’s simple, it’s reliable, it’s 100% … Read more