[python-ldap] AD objectGUID conversion to string

[Michael Ströder]

Kernel Panic wrote:
> Hello everyone, when I extract the objectGUID value from an AD account I
> believe it is extracted in binary format, can anyone show me a way to
> convert that to a string similar to what you would get from Microsoft's
> csvde.exe tool?

In web2ldap I have code similar to this:

import uuid
u = uuid.UUID(bytes=ldap_entry['objectGUID'][0])

Not sure whether csvde.exe really displays objectGUID value as UUID string
representation though.

Ciao, Michael.


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