Question

I am using python-ldap to try to authenticate against an existing Active Directory, and when I use the following code:

import ldap l = ldap.initialize('LDAP://example.com') m = l.simple_bind_s([e-mail],password) 

I get the following back:

print m (97, []) 

What does the 97 and empty list signify coming from a Microsoft Active Directory server?

I gather this is a successful authentication since it doesn’t error (which it does if you use the wrong password or non-existent username), but I’d like to know if the tuple means something useful.

Answer 1

According to the documentation, this is:

LDAP_REFERRAL_LIMIT_EXCEEDED      0x61   The referral limit was exceeded. 

Probably

ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0) 

could help.