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Python Network Programming

By : Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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Python Network Programming

By: Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Overview of this book

This Learning Path highlights major aspects of Python network programming such as writing simple networking clients, creating and deploying SDN and NFV systems, and extending your network with Mininet. You’ll also learn how to automate legacy and the latest network devices. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll use Python for DevOps and open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Toward the end, you'll develop client-side applications, such as web API clients, email clients, SSH, and FTP, using socket programming. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have learned how to analyze a network's security vulnerabilities using advanced network packet capture and analysis techniques. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Practical Network Automation by Abhishek Ratan • Mastering Python Networking by Eric Chou • Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition by Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Reading and writing LDAP


In this recipe, we will read and write from the FreeIPA LDAP demo server.

Getting ready

Install ldap3 Python client, the prerequisite for this recipe:

$ sudo pip install ldap3

How to do it...

First we will read LDAP with a Reader object as shown by Listing 11.8 as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition
  -- Chapter - 11 
# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and
  Python 3.5.2. 
# It may run on any other version with/without
  modifications. 
# Adopted from http://ldap3.readthedocs.io/tutorial_abstraction_basic.html 
 
from ldap3 import Server, Connection, ObjectDef, AttrDef, Reader, Writer, ALL 
 
 
def main(): 
    server = Server('ipa.demo1.freeipa.org', get_info=ALL) 
    conn = Connection(server, 'uid=admin,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=demo1,dc=freeipa,dc=org', 'Secret123', auto_bind=True) 
    person = ObjectDef('person', conn) 
    r = Reader(conn, person, 'ou=ldap3-
               tutorial,dc=demo1,dc=freeipa,dc...