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10th December 2007 - Link Blog

Django snippets: Authenticate against Active Directory. Uses a custom authentication backend with the Python ldap module. If Django hasn’t seen the user before a new Django user account is created with data from ldap.

Posted 10th December 2007 at 8:40 am

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