Rust LDAP with auth

Question

How do I connect to ldap using Rust?

All I could find from the online docs was this:

use ldap3::result::Result;
use ldap3::{LdapConn, Scope, SearchEntry};

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut ldap = LdapConn::new("ldap://localhost:2389")?;
    let (rs, _res) = ldap
        .search(
            "ou=Places,dc=example,dc=org",
            Scope::Subtree,
            "(&(objectClass=locality)(l=ma*))",
            vec!["l"],
        )?
        .success()?;
    for entry in rs {
        println!("{:?}", SearchEntry::construct(entry));
    }
    Ok(ldap.unbind()?)
}

I'm looking for something like python's ldap3

Answer 1

After defining the LdapConn, you need to bind. You have to use distinguished name or email in the bind.

    let result = ldap
        .simple_bind("[email protected]", "password")
        .unwrap()
        .success();
    if result.is_err() {
        println!("This failed")
    } else {
        println!("IT WORKED!")
    }

A more practical application:

   assert!(ldap
        .simple_bind("[email protected]", "password")
        .unwrap()
        .success()
        .is_ok());

If you need more options like python's ldap3 you can use LdapConnSettings to specify some of the settings like tls

    let mut ldap: LdapConn = LdapConn::with_settings(
        LdapConnSettings::new()
            .set_no_tls_verify(true)
            .set_starttls(true),
        "ldap://localhost:2389"
    )
    .unwrap();