SMS System
Introduction As part of the OEP platform at my previous college, we designed an SMS subsystem for messaging Danish mobile phones. It was intended for alerts like account lockouts or password resets. I coded it in Python. The Scenario We used LDAP as a central user database. The script needed to accept either a phone number or username, then look up the mobile number via LDAP (mobile attribute). I used python-ldap for this, available via Ubuntu’s package system. ...