Testing authentication in Django
Go to your Django project folder and Start the python interpreter with
python manage.py shelland then do,
from django_auth_ldap.backend import LDAPBackendldapobj = LDAPBackend()user = ldapobj.populate_user(<LDAP username of an existing user>)user.is_anonymous()if the last function call returns false then it your LDAP auth module works as expected.
edit:
Run the Python interpreter as above and,
import ldapserver = 'ldap://<your server ip>'user_dn = '<dn for a known user>'password = '<his or her password>'con = ldap.initialize(server)con.simple_bind_s(user_dn, password)This will return SERVER_DOWN: {'desc': "Can't contact LDAP server"} exception, if you can't connect to the LDAP sever.