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Bitmasking userAccountControl attribute in LDAP from C#
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
As I have been doing some LDAP work lately, it is very important that one becomes accustomed to bitmasking while pulling information in C#. Many of the very low-level attributes and rights are stored as maskable integers.
Bitmasking is simply ANDing the integer value with a pre-defined binary integer to see if it equals 0 or the integer itself. If it equals 0, your test-case has resolved to not being flagged for that bit.
The userAccountControl attribute in all Active Directory user type objects is how you can determine if an account has, for example, been disabled. There are a number of different types of information you can pull from this field, but for my example I will use to check if the account has been disabled.
The bit-value integer for disabled is 0x2, which is an integer-value of 2.
In order to check if this flag is set, we do the following:
int myvalue = 512;
int maskvalue = 2; // This could also be int maskvalue = 0x2;
int result = myvalue & maskvalue;
if (result == maskvalue) {
// It is disabled, BOOOO
} else {
// It is enabled, YAY
}
This is just one of the many fields you can check for in LDAP using bit-masking.
In the case of the userAccountControl, I created an enum with all available values because we might be using these again in the future. This enum is as follows:
public enum LdapUserAccountFlags
{
Script = 1,
AccountDisabled = 2,
HomeDirectoryRequred = 8,
LockedOut = 16,
PasswordNotRequred = 32,
CannotChangePassword = 64,
EncryptedTextPasswordAllowed = 128,
TemporaryDuplicateAccount = 256,
NormalAccount = 512,
InterdomainTrustAccount = 2048,
WorkstationTrustAccount = 4096,
ServerTrustAccount = 8192,
NeverExpirePassword = 65536,
MNSLogonAccount = 131072,
SmartcardRequired = 262144,
TrustedForDelegation = 524288,
NotDelegated = 1048576,
UseDESKeyOnly = 2097152,
DontRequirePreAuth = 4194304,
PasswordExpired = 8388608,
TrustedToAuthForDelegation = 16777216
}
You can then bitmask the specific enum value, without having to remember all of the pre-defined constant integers provided by Microsoft.
Bitmaskin' Tom Out.
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