[Freeipa-devel] bind DN of executing command

[Rob Crittenden]

Sumit Bose wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 05:06:06PM -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
>> I need the DN of the user who is running the current command. This may
>> be defined as the user who is bound or will bind to execute the LDAP
>> commands I have prepared.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to do this in the FreeIPA api?
>
> I guess you are looking for
>
>   ipa user-find --whoami

If you're doing this in your own plugin, you get the current principal with:

getattr(context, 'principal')

Using that you can get the DN of that user with a search like this:

"(&(objectclass=posixaccount)(krbprincipalname=%s))" % getattr(context, 
'principal')

We don't currently have a helper for this.

This is rather inefficient in user-find as it searches from the basedn 
rather than the user container for some reason.

rob