How to enable logging in Python LDAP

~ Leo Petrazickis

When writing Python scripts which rely on python-ldap and openLDAP, it is often useful to turn on debug messages as follows:

import ldap;

# enable python-ldap logging
ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_DEBUG_LEVEL, 4095)

# enable openLDAP logging
l = ldap.initialize('ldap://yourserver:port', trace_level=2)

This is also useful when debugging the LDAP Plugin for Trac.

Published by Leo Petrazickis

I’m a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Autonomic. I do Golang, Ruby, JS, Python, Elixir, as well as web scale devops with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes and Docker.

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