Django LDAP Integration

These posts helped me: http://kacperdziubek.pl/python/django-ldap-open-directory-integration/ https://pythonhosted.org/django-auth-ldap/

Install:
$ pip install django-auth-ldap

Then in settings.py, add:
import ldap
from django_auth_ldap.config import LDAPSearch

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    'django_auth_ldap.backend.LDAPBackend',
)

AUTH_LDAP_SERVER_URI = "ldap://my.appauth.com" # ip or host name of Open Directory server
AUTH_LDAP_BIND_DN = "CN=Accounts,OU=US Security,DC=corp,DC=com"
AUTH_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD = "MySecurePassword"
AUTH_LDAP_USER_SEARCH = LDAPSearch("OU=US Users,dc=corp,dc=com",
    ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "(sAMAccountName=%(user)s)")
AUTH_LDAP_CONNECTION_OPTIONS = {
    # make search fast
    ldap.OPT_REFERRALS: 0
}

AUTH_LDAP_USER_ATTR_MAP = {
    "username": "sAMAccountName",
    "first_name": "givenName",
    "last_name": "sn",
    "email": "mail"
}

The mapping above would result into automatically saving the information to the users table.