Intro

I don't know LDAP very well. Had a project to connect our KubeFlow instance in K8S to a local Active Directory. The setup involved wiring our Dex configmap to AD. Official Dex docs here.

The main info we needed were a service account to bind and the correct DNs for binding and searching. In order to learn some of these topics, figured it would be best to spin up my own instance and experiment.

I found a great article on Medium. Thanks to Amrutha for this write-up! However, it needed to be altered slightly in order to use a newer version of OpenLDAP on dockerhub (bitnami vs osisix).

Git repo here if you want to follow along.

Create the OpenLDAP container

First step is to create our OpenLDAP instance we will be exploring

docker run --rm --name ldap \
  --env LDAP_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin \
  --env LDAP_ROOT='dc=example,dc=in' \
  --env LDAP_PORT_NUMBER=389 \
  --publish 389:389 \
  --volume "./ldifs/:/ldifs/" \
  --volume "./schemas/:/schemas/" \
  --hostname 'ldap.example.in' \
  bitnami/openldap:latest

Explore

Now we can play!

Exec into container

docker exec -it ldap /bin/bash

Interact with LDAP

Create OUs (orgainaization Units).

Create a devops OU

ldapadd -x -w admin -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=in" << EOF
# LDIF file to add organizational unit "ou=devops" under "dc=example,dc=in"
dn: ou=devops,dc=example,dc=in
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: devops

EOF

Create an appdev OU

# LDIF file to add organizational unit "ou=appdev" under "dc=example,dc=in"
ldapadd -x -w admin -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=in" << EOF
dn: ou=appdev,dc=example,dc=in
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: appdev

EOF

Create User accounts.

Create my account

ldapadd -x -w admin -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=in" << EOF
# LDIF file to Create user "ltratcliff" in "ou=appdev" under "dc=example,dc=in"
dn: cn=ltratcliff,ou=appdev,dc=example,dc=in
objectClass: person
cn: ltratcliff
sn: Tom
userPassword: Password1

EOF

Create co-workers account

# LDIF file to Create user "dave" in "ou=devops" under "dc=example,dc=in"
ldapadd -x -w admin -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=in" << EOF
dn: cn=dave,ou=devops,dc=example,dc=in
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
cn: dave
sn: Dave
userPassword: Dave@123
EOF

Create Groups

ldapadd -x -w admin -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=in" << EOF
# Group: appdev-team
dn: cn=appdev-team,dc=example,dc=in
objectClass: top
objectClass: groupOfNames
cn: appdev-team
description: App Development Team
member: cn=ltratcliff,ou=appdev,dc=example,dc=in
member: cn=dave,ou=devops,dc=example,dc=in

# Group: devops-team
dn: cn=devops-team,dc=example,dc=in
objectClass: top
objectClass: groupOfNames
cn: devops-team
description: DevOps Team
member: cn=dave,ou=devops,dc=example,dc=in
EOF

Modify and apply MemberOf attribute to Users in Groups.

ldapadd -x -w admin -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=in" << EOF
dn: cn=ltratcliff,ou=appdev,dc=example,dc=in
changetype: modify
add: memberOf
memberOf: cn=devops-team,dc=example,dc=in

EOF

Search

Search from ldapsearch

ldapsearch -x -b dc=example,dc=in -D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=in" -w admin -s sub "objectclass=*"

Search from python

from ldap3 import Server, Connection, ALL

server = Server('localhost', get_info=ALL)
dn = "cn=ltratcliff, ou=devops, dc=example, dc=in"
conn = Connection(server, dn, password='Password1', auto_bind=True)

#conn.search('dc=example,dc=in', '(cn=*)', attributes=['*'])
conn.search('dc=example,dc=in', '(cn=ltratcliff)', attributes=['*'])

for entry in conn.entries:
    print(entry)

Modify ACLs

Check oclAccess permission.

ldapsearch -Y EXTERNAL -Q -H ldapi:/// -LLL -o ldif-wrap=no -b cn=config '(objectClass=olcDatabaseConfig)' olcAccess

Modification to grant read access to the user "ltratcliff"

ldapmodify -H ldapi:/// -Y EXTERNAL << EOF
dn: olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config
changetype: modify
add: olcAccess
olcAccess: {2}to * by dn="cn=ltratcliff,ou=devops,dc=example,dc=in" read
EOF

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