[python-ldap] AD objectGUID conversion to string

[Rob McBroom]

On 19 Sep 2014, at 10:44, 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?

No access to an AD server any more, but is it possible that the value is 
base64 encoded? If `ldapsearch` shows two colons instead of one after 
that attribute, that’s probably the case. If so, you just need to 
decode it. There are a million ways to do it. In Python, it’s as easy 
as

     import base64
     base64.decodestring(whatever)

-- 
Rob McBroom
http://www.skurfer.com/
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