ASP.NET Core 2.0 LDAP Active Directory Authentication

Thanks to Win’s Answer for pointing out that I needed to use Windows Compatibility Pack, I was able to figure this out. The first thing I had to do was install the Nuget package Install-Package Microsoft.Windows.Compatibility At the time, I needed a preview version, so I appended -Version 2.0.0-preview1-26216-02 on the end of this command … Read more

How to write LDAP query to test if user is member of a group?

You should be able to create a query with this filter here: (&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=yourUserName) (memberof=CN=YourGroup,OU=Users,DC=YourDomain,DC=com)) and when you run that against your LDAP server, if you get a result, your user “yourUserName” is indeed a member of the group “CN=YourGroup,OU=Users,DC=YourDomain,DC=com Try and see if this works! If you use C# / VB.Net and System.DirectoryServices, this snippet … Read more

Can PostgreSQL have a uniqueness constraint on array elements?

The righteous path You might want to reconsider normalizing your schema. It is not necessary for everyone to “join for even the simplest query”. Create a VIEW for that. Table could look like this: CREATE TABLE hostname ( hostname_id serial PRIMARY KEY , host_id int REFERENCES host(host_id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE , hostname … Read more

I can’t install python-ldap

The python-ldap is based on OpenLDAP, so you need to have the development files (headers) in order to compile the Python module. If you’re on Ubuntu, the package is called libldap2-dev. Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libsasl2-dev python-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev RedHat/CentOS: sudo yum install python-devel openldap-devel