Addict

Get a full Active Directory REST API in 30 seconds

Addict is a drop-in REST API microservice for Active Directory implementations. Just like that.

Doing this:

npm i addict -g
addict --url ldaps://[address] --user [user]@[domain] --pass [pass]

Gives you a web server with REST endpoints to add, remove, move, disable, enable, unlock or list Users, Groups and Organizational Units. It includes result caching by default and flexible filters for querying, sorting, pagination and column selection.

There's interactive API docs at /api:

These docs let you add arguments, try the requests and see the results.

Lastly, it comes with a companion Javascript library.

Made with <3 by dthree.

API

# Users

GET /user
POST /user
GET /user/:user
PUT /user/:user
GET /user/:user/exists
GET /user/:user/member-of/:group
POST /user/:user/authenticate
PUT /user/:user/password
PUT /user/:user/password-never-expires
PUT /user/:user/password-expires
PUT /user/:user/enable
PUT /user/:user/disable
PUT /user/:user/move
PUT /user/:user/unlock
DELETE /user/:user

# Groups

GET /group
POST /group
GET /group/:group
GET /group/:group/exists
POST /group/:group/user/:user
DELETE /group/:group/user/:user
DELETE /group/:group

# Organizational Units

GET /ou
POST /ou
GET /ou/:ou
GET /ou/:ou/exists
DELETE /ou/:ou

# Other

GET /other
GET /all
GET /find/:filter
GET /status

# Monitoring

GET /status

Want more? Just ask.

Filters

Fields

Choose which fields to include in the results:

GET /user?_fields=description,cn

Filter

Filter any field with fieldName=value.

GET /group?cn=Guests

We've got operators as well:

GET /user?userAccountControl_gte=500

Operators

• =: Equals
• _ne=: Not equals
• _lt=: Less than
• _gt=: Greater than
• _gte=: Greater than or equal to
• _lte=: Less than or equal to
• _like=: Like (fuzzy search)

Sort

GET /ou?_sort=whenCreated,dn&_order=desc,asc

Paginate

GET /user?_page=6&limit=10

Slice

Add _start and _end or _limit:

GET /user?_start=20&_limit=40

Full Text Search

GET /group?_q=addict

The Nitty Gritty

Passing Secrets

You can pass the AD details at runtime:

addict --url ldaps://[address] --user [user]@[domain] --pass [pass] --port [port]

Port is optional and defaults to 3000.

As environmental variables:

export ADDICT_URL=ldaps://[address]
export ADDICT_USER=[user]@[domain]
export ADDICT_PASS=[pass]
export ADDICT_PORT=[port] # optional

You can run it from docker as well, using environmental variables.

Or in ./config.json:

git clone https://github.com/dthree/addict.git
cd addict
vim ./config.json

{
  ...
  "user": "[user]@[domain]",
  "pass": "[pass]",
  "url": "ldaps://[address]",
  "port": 3000
}

Authentication

This service defaults to no authentication. I can't and won't try to guess your flavor.

Addict uses express. The file ./middleware.js at the root of the directory exposes the app so you can add middleware hooks for auth logic.

LDAP vs LDAPS

If you connect to Active Directory over plain LDAP, it will refuse certain write operations including adding a user and changing a password. To make things even better, Windows Server doesn't support LDAPS out of the box. You're going to have to set up the Domain Controller as a cert authority by installing the Active Directory Certificate Services Role.

Here's a good tutorial on that.

License

MIT