Active Directory plugin available?

DonaldDuck999 · 9th June 2007, 12:58

Is there a plugin for a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain, e.g to get the group membership of an user, to manipulate user attributes or to add a user to an Active Directory group?

Thanks in advance for your help.

nycjv321 · 9th June 2007, 17:53

why dont u "manage" active directory with scripts? calling tools such as dsadd,cvsde etc... etc...

DonaldDuck999 · 9th June 2007, 20:33

Thank you for your feedback. I know that there are a lot of nice tools to manage the Active Directory but I need a simple solution to check from a NSIS installer package if a user is member of a specific group or not .....

kichik · 9th June 2007, 20:50

There's a function in the Wiki that retrieves the user's group.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/User_Man...s_Group.28s.29

Mr Inches · 13th June 2007, 13:27

I put some code together to do LDAP style searches on AD mid last year. e.g. it can do searches like:

/filter="(&(objectCategory=Group)(sAMAccountName=Domain*))" /attributelist="distinguishedName,objectSid"

(where filter is the search criteria and the attribute list is what attributes for each matching object to return.)

I never released it as it was a bit patchy, and still isn't complete.

I will see if it can be made presentable enough for a release, might be a couple of days though. It will probably be alpha release level code but I am happy to work on improving it, if there is a need for this type of functionality in NSIS.

Doing AD administration is a bit more involved, but I think could be done in a NSIS plug-in, possibly by extending the framework I developed for the search function.

Duncan

9th June 2007, 12:58	#1
DonaldDuck999 Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	Active Directory plugin available? Is there a plugin for a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain, e.g to get the group membership of an user, to manipulate user attributes or to add a user to an Active Directory group? Thanks in advance for your help.

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kichik M.I.A. [NSIS Dev, Mod] Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Israel Posts: 11,343	There's a function in the Wiki that retrieves the user's group. http://nsis.sourceforge.net/User_Man...s_Group.28s.29 NSIS FAQ \| NSIS Home Page \| Donate $ "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -- Confucius

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9th June 2007, 17:53	#2
nycjv321 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7	why dont u "manage" active directory with scripts? calling tools such as dsadd,cvsde etc... etc...

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DonaldDuck999 Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	Thank you for your feedback. I know that there are a lot of nice tools to manage the Active Directory but I need a simple solution to check from a NSIS installer package if a user is member of a specific group or not .....

13th June 2007, 13:27	#5
Mr Inches Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Canberra, Australia Posts: 76	I put some code together to do LDAP style searches on AD mid last year. e.g. it can do searches like: /filter="(&(objectCategory=Group)(sAMAccountName=Domain))" /attributelist="distinguishedName,objectSid"* (where filter is the search criteria and the attribute list is what attributes for each matching object to return.) I never released it as it was a bit patchy, and still isn't complete. I will see if it can be made presentable enough for a release, might be a couple of days though. It will probably be alpha release level code but I am happy to work on improving it, if there is a need for this type of functionality in NSIS. Doing AD administration is a bit more involved, but I think could be done in a NSIS plug-in, possibly by extending the framework I developed for the search function. Duncan