Flask - Active Directory Authentication

Question

I made a small Flask application and I would like users to be able to authenticate with their Windows NT IDs. I am not a part of the IT team, so I have limited insight into this

Answer 1

It is quite easy to work with Flask as it is a lightweight and plugin-based Python web framework.

Things you will need for LDAP Configuration

• LDAP Host
• LDAP Domain
• LDAP Profile Key

You need to install Flask-LDAP plugin

pip install Flask-LDAP

and here is a basic example to get you started:

from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.ldap import LDAP, login_required

app = Flask(__name__)
app.debug = True

app.config['LDAP_HOST'] = 'ldap.example.com'
app.config['LDAP_DOMAIN'] = 'example.com'
app.config['LDAP_SEARCH_BASE'] = 'OU=Domain Users,DC=example,DC=com'

ldap = LDAP(app)
app.secret_key = "welfhwdlhwdlfhwelfhwlehfwlehfelwehflwefwlehflwefhlwefhlewjfhwelfjhweflhweflhwel"
app.add_url_rule('/login', 'login', ldap.login, methods=['GET', 'POST'])

@app.route('/')
@ldap.login_required
def index():
    pass

# @app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
# def login():
#     pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run(debug=True, host="0.0.0.0")

More details can be found here

Answer 2

For Name: Flask-LDAP, Version: 0.1.6 use this:

To install: pip install Flask-LDAP

and import by:

from flask import Flask
from flask_ldap import LDAP, login_required

then follow along Priyank's example.