RE: [gentoo-server] Extract usernames from Active Directory

[Pandu Poluan]

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Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Extract usernames from Active Directory
From: Ryan Gibbons <gibbonsr-ml@××××××××××××××××××.com>
Date: 2011-06-29 02:52

>> Hello list!
>>
>> I'm in the process of setting up a pair of cloud-based email gateways
>> based on Postfix. The gateways are meant to perform 'front line
>> filtering' against spammers, before the messages entered the measly
>> bandwidth into my company's DMZ.
>>
>> The 'missing ingredient' would be a way to extract the usernames from
>> Windows' Active Directory. I don't really need a full-fledged AD-LDAP
>> synchronization, just a way to get them names into a nice list with
>> which 'postmap' can act upon.
>>
>> I plan to run the extractor tool every 30 minutes on one of the Gentoo
>> servers in the DMZ, and automagically push the extraction result -- if
>> there's anything new -- onto the mail gateways using rsync. And have
>> yet-another-script at the gateways run 15 minutes afterwards to
>> 'compile' a new file (maybe leveraging make's baked-in timestamp
>> detection).
>>
>> Anyone knows what tool(s) I'll need? Especially for the AD extraction part?
>>
> It's been a very long time since I've done this, but I believe the link below will get you going in the right direction
>
>http://randomerror.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/quick-tip-how-to-search-in-windows-active-directory-from-linux-with-ldapsearch/

Ah, that would be a nice start. Unfortunately, the post was talking about Debian/Ubuntu, and a search on Portage seems to not have the 'ldap-util' package. Lots of interesting packages, though:

http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=ldap

Rgds,
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