ldap_search: Search Active Directory at KTH

In KTH-Library/kthapi: Data from KTH APIs

Search Active Directory at KTH

Description

This function uses ldapsearch to query the KTH Active Directory. It requires environment variables to be set in .Renviron, specifically LDAP_USER, LDAP_PASS, LDAP_HOST and LDAP_BASE for the service account used for the queries.

Usage

ldap_search(ldap_query, ldap_attributes = NULL, cfg = ldap_config())

Arguments

ldap_query	the LDAP query to issue, such as 'ugKthid=*'
ldap_attributes	set of attributes to return, by default NULL but can be a character vector of attributes, such as c('ugKthid', 'ugOrcid')
cfg	the connection credentials, by default given from ldap_config()

Details

The ldapsearch command makes use of -E pr=2147483647/noprompt to avoid paging and returns results in LDIF format which is parsed into a tibble.

It is possible to disable ldaps TLS require certificate check, by setting the environment variable LDAPTLS_REQCERT to "never" (can be done in .Renviron)

Value

tibble with results

Examples

## Not run: 
if(interactive()){
 ldap_search("(&(ugOrcid=*)(ugKthid=*))", c("ugKthid", "ugOrcid"))
 }

## End(Not run)

KTH-Library/kthapi documentation built on June 27, 2023, 9:27 p.m.