Fake LDAP is a Python library to ease the development and testing of code which operates against one or more directory services.

Currently, the following directory services can be faked:

• OpenLDAP
• Active Directory

1. Add fakeldap directory to your Python path.

2. Add the following to you test or development environment:

   import fakeldap
   fakeldap.fake_out_ldap()

   This will replace the normal python-ldap library with a fake version.

A fake directory defaults to simulating an OpenLDAP directory.

Before a connection can be made to a fake directory, it must be populated. To populate a directory:

ldapurl = 'ldap://ldap.example.com'
rootdn = 'dc=example,dc=com'
records = [
    ('ou=users,%s' % rootdn, {
        'objectClass': ['top', 'organizationalUnit'], 
        'ou': 'users'}), 
    ('uid=user1,ou=users,%s' % rootdn, {
        'cn': 'First Last', 
        'objectClass': ['person', 'inetOrgPerson'], 
        'userPassword': 'password', 
        'sn': 'Last', 
        'mail': 'user1@example.com', 
        'givenName': 'First', 
        'uid': 'user1'}),
]
fakeldap.populate(ldapurl, rootdn, records)

To toggle a fake directory to simulate Active Directory:

fakeldap.toggle_directory_type( 'ldap://ad.example.com' )

To reset all fake directories:

fakeldap.clear()

To reset a particular fake directories:

fakeldap.clear( 'ldap://ldap.example.com' )

To check if a record is present in the directory, the following will access the backend directly:

dn = 'uid=user1,ou=users,dc=example,dc=com'
fakeldap.exists( 'ldap://ldap.example.com', dn )

To verify a password for a user in the directory, the following will access the backend directly:

dn = 'uid=user1,ou=users,dc=example,dc=com'
fakeldap.exists( 'ldap://ldap.example.com', dn, 'password' )

See: http://github.com/hcwebdev/fakeldap/issues