While the accepted answer does in fact show a proper way to bind to an LDAP server I do feel it didn’t answer the question holistically. Here is what I ended up implementing to grab the mail and department of a user. This somewhat blends the required attributes from the original question. l = ldap.initialize(‘ldap://ldap.myserver.com:389’) … Read more
memberOf (in AD) is stored as a list of distinguishedNames. Your filter needs to be something like: (&(objectCategory=user)(memberOf=cn=MyCustomGroup,ou=ouOfGroup,dc=subdomain,dc=domain,dc=com)) If you don’t yet have the distinguished name, you can search for it with: (&(objectCategory=group)(cn=myCustomGroup)) and return the attribute distinguishedName. Case may matter.
CN = Common Name OU = Organizational Unit DC = Domain Component These are all parts of the X.500 Directory Specification, which defines nodes in a LDAP directory. You can also read up on LDAP data Interchange Format (LDIF), which is an alternate format. You read it from right to left, the right-most component is … Read more