Introduction

fusiondirectory-api is a Python3 wrapper for the RPC API of LDAP manager FusionDirectory. You need to enable the plugin webservice in FusionDirectory to be able to use the API.

This wrapper supports the RPC based API in versions of FusionDirectory up to 1.3. This API may be deprecated in version 1.4 as a change to a REST based API is planned.

As FusionDirectory manages data in LDAP, the database can also be updated directly in LDAP. However, using the API has the following advantages:

• Access for the API user is controlled by access control lists created in the FusionDirectory GUI. No need to configure access on the LDAP server.
• Objects can be created from templates maintained in the FusionDirectory GUI.
• LDAP data can be accessed via HTTP/HTTPS on ports 80/443 instead of through the LDAP ports 389/636.
• Users can be locked/unlocked (Prefix encrypted password with !) without giving the API user access to the ldap field userPassword.

Installation

Install with pip: pip3 install fusiondirectory-api

Overview

A description of key concepts when working with the FusionDirectory API

Databases

FusionDirectory can handle more than a single database. In the GUI, the database to use can be selcted from a drop down. When the using the API, the name of the database to use, must be supplied when logging in.

Objects

FusionDirectory organizes data in objects. There are different types of object. One type of object is USER. In general, the object type needs to be specified along with the object's DN when manipulating objects with the API.

The object types supported by an installation of FusionDirectory, depends on which plugins are enabled. The list of objects in an installation can be retrieved by calling get_object_types().

These are the objects in the FusionDirectory installation of the author of this project:

• CONFIGURATION
• OGROUP
• PRINTER
• ROLE
• WORKSTATION
• SAMBADOMAIN
• USER
• TERMINAL
• SERVER
• MOBILEPHONE
• COUNTRY
• ACLASSIGNMENT
• ACLROLE
• COMPONENT
• GROUP
• DCOBJECT
• DEPARTMENT
• DOMAIN
• LOCALITY
• ORGANIZATION
• PHONE

Tabs

The data for an object, is organized in tabs. The tabs available for an object type, depends on the activated plugins. The tabs available for an object type can be retrieved by calling get_tabs(OBJECT_TYPE). By default, tabs are inactive. The following dictionary shows the avaiable tabs for the object type USER in the author's installation. The outher keys are the values which should be used when refering to a tab when using the API. The name is the name for the tab in the webinterface GUI.

{
  'user': {'name': 'User', 'active': True},
  'posixAccount': {'name': 'Unix', 'active': False},
  'personalInfo': {'name': 'Personal', 'active': False},
  'mailAccount': {'name': 'Mail', 'active': False},
  'sambaAccount': {'name': 'Samba', 'active': False},
  'userRoles': {'name': 'Groups and roles', 'active': False},
  'sshAccount': {'name': 'SSH', 'active': False},
  'userCertificates': {'name': 'Certificates', 'active': False},
  'reference': {'name': 'References', 'active': True},
  'ldapDump': {'name': 'LDAP', 'active': True}
}

Templates

Objects can be created from templates. The templates can not be created from the API. They need to be created manually in the GUI. The DN of the template is needed when creating an object from a template.

Examples

This section contains som examples showing how to use the API.

Logging in

Log in, and show available object types.

# Import the library
from fusiondirectory_api import FusionDirectoryAPI

# Log in to the FusionDirectory server
api = FusionDirectoryAPI(
  host = "https://ldap.example.org",
  user = "user-name",
  password = "secret-password",
  database = "my-ldap",
  )

# Get the object types available
object_types = api.get_object_types()

# Print the object types
print(object_types)

Creating a new user

Let's create a new object of type USER. Its assumed you have created the object api as shown in the example above. Note, that the password is a list, because the inner workings are based on the GUI, where the user has to type the password twice (To confirm). The 1st entry in the list should be the empty string, the 2nd and 3rd entries must be the password to be used. That is the 2nd and 3rd entry must be identical.

# The data for the new user
values = {
  "user": {
    "uid": "bj",
    "sn": "Jacobsen",
    "givenName": "Bent",
    "userPassword": ["", "secretpassword", "secretpassword"],
  }
}

# Create the new user
new_user_dn = api.create_object("USER", values)

# Print the DN of the new user
print(f"Created new user: {new_user_dn}")

Updating a user

Add an email address to the user we created above.

# The data to add to the user
values = {
  "mailAccount": {
    "mail": "bj@example.org"
  }
}

# Update the user
updated_user_dn = api.update_object("USER", new_user_dn, values)

# Print to confirm the change
print(f"Updated data for user: {updated_user_dn}")

Deleting a user

Delete the user from the examples above.

# Delete the user
result = api.delete_object("USER", new_user_dn)

# Print to confirm (True)
print(f"Deleted user: {result}")

Retrieving user data

Get data from objects using the method get_objects(object_type, attributes=None, ou=None, filter=""). Set attributes to a dictionary with LDAP attributes as keys, and one of the following as value:

• 1 : Get a single attribute
• * : Get attribute(s) as list
• raw : Untouched LDAP value
• b64 : Base64 encoded data. Usefull for binary data

# Get the _cn_ and a list of _objectClass_ for all _USER_ objects in the database.
r = api.get_objects("USER", attributes={"cn": "1", "objectClass": "*"})

# Print the result.
print(r)

Class documentation

Technical documentation. For a description of each medthod, look at doc strings in source code.

Constructor

• FusionDirectoryAPI(host, user, password, database, login=True)

Methods

• create_object(object_type, values, template_dn=None)
• delete_tab(object_type, object_dn, tab)
• delete_object(object_type, object_dn)
• get_base()
• get_fields(object_type, object_dn=None, tab=None) (USELESS?)
• get_number_of_objects(object_type, ou=None, filter="")
• get_session_id()
• get_objects(object_type, attributes={"objectType" = "*"}, ou=None, filter=None)
• get_object(object_type, dn, attributes={"objectType" = "*"})
• get_object_type_info(object_type)
• get_object_types()
• get_databases()
• get_tabs(object_type, object_dn=None)
• get_recovery_token(email)
• get_template(object_type, template_dn) (USELESS?)
• user_is_locked(user_dn)
• lock_user(user_dn)
• unlock_user(user_dn)
• login(user, password, database, verify_cert=True, login=True, enforce_encryption=True, client_id="python_api_wrapper")
• logout()
• set_password(uid, password, token) (TOKEN ALWAYS INVALID?)
• update_object(object_type, object_dn, values)

Testing

Run tests from project root. You need a running instance of FusionDirectory. Set up environment variables (Assuming Linux).

• export FD_USER = "user-name"
• export FD_PASSWORD = "secret-password"
• export FD_HOST = "https://fd.example.org"
• export FD_DATABASE = "my-ldap-database"

py.test tests.py