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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:00:32 +0100
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On 22/06/2011 14:34, Anurag wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am working on application which needs to do a authentication against
> LDAP, if LDAP not installed then local system account (administrator
> user in windows and root user in Linux). This should work on both
> Windows and Linux.
>
> Which library I should use for that.

python-ldap seems the obvious choice:


   http://www.python-ldap.org/

TJG