Authenticating to Active Directory with python-ldap always returns (97, [])

Question

Similar to this question, I am trying to perform simple authentication to a 2003 Active Directory using python ldap (CentOS 6.2 x86_64, Python 2.6.6, python-ldap 2.3.10).

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Answer 1

This error means that your conn.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS, 0) isn't being affected.

Therefore, try this:

import ldap

ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_REFERRALS,0)
ldap.protocol_version = 3
conn = ldap.initialize('ldap://....')
conn.simple_bind_s('user@domain.com', 'RightPassword')