Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: active-directory
Version: 0.67.1
Summary: Active Directory
Home-page: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/active_directory.html
Author: Tim Golden
Author-email: mail@timgolden.me.uk
License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Description: ******************************
        Python Active Directory Module
        ******************************
        
        What is it?
        ===========
        
        Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's answer to LDAP, the industry-standard
        directory service holding information about users, computers and
        other resources in a tree structure, arranged by departments or
        geographical location, and optimized for searching.
        
        The Python Active Directory module is a lightweight wrapper on top of the
        pywin32 extensions, and hides some of the plumbing needed to get Python to
        talk to the AD API. It's pure Python and should work with any version of
        Python from 2.2 onwards (generators) and any recent version of pywin32.
        
        
        Where do I get it?
        ==================
        
        http://timgolden.me.uk/python/active_directory.html
        
        
        How do I install it?
        ====================
        
        When all's said and done, it's just a module. But for those
        who like setup programs:
        
        python setup.py install
        
        
        Prerequisites
        =============
        
        If you're running a recent Python (2.2+) on a recent Windows (2k, 2k3, XP)
        and you have Mark Hammond's pywin32 extensions installed, you're probably
        up-and-running already. Otherwise...
        
          Windows
          -------
          If you're running Win9x / NT4 you'll need to get AD support
          from Microsoft. Microsoft URLs change quite often, so I suggest you
          do this: 
          http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amicrosoft.com+active+directory+downloads
        
          Python
          ------
          http://www.python.org/ (just in case you didn't know)
        
          pywin32 (was win32all)
          ----------------------
          http://pywin32.sf.net
        
        
        How do I use it?
        ================
        
        There are examples at: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/ad_cookbook.html
        but as a quick taster, try this, to list all users' display names:
        
        import active_directory
        
        for person in active_directory.search (objectCategory='Person'):
          print person.displayName
        
        What License is it released under?
        ==================================
        (c) Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> 2004-2007
        Licensed under the (GPL-compatible) MIT License:
        http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
