markscottwright / distinguishedname

Python package to parse and stringify RFC 2253 Distinguished Names

distinguishedname

Parse RFC 2253 Distinguished Names from strings and create strings from DNs (which are implemented here as lists of RDNs - which are lists of strings in "TAG=VALUE" format).

Examples

>>> string_to_dn(r'CN=   James \"Bond\" +UID= 007, OU = 00 Division\, Special Services, O=MI5,C=UK')
[['CN=James "Bond"', 'UID=007'], ['OU=00 Division, Special Services'], ['O=MI5'], ['C=UK']]

>>> dn_to_string([['CN="Pinkie" Stevens', 'UID=1'], ['O= Name With Spaces ']])
'CN=\\"Pinkie\\" Stevens+UID=1,O=\\20Name With Spaces\\20'

Rationale

I couldn't find any existing libraries for this. In theory, python-ldap has a DN class that should be able to do this, but I've never been able to pip install it successfully.

This is essentially a single file, so you could also just drop this file into your project, ansible module, CLI script or whatever.