RE: How to check results of BIND

[Capacio, P. J <PCA...@am...>]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 09:40:33AM -0600, Capacio, Paula J wrote:
>> Hi,=20
>> What's the best way to see if the BIND was successful?
>> I coded...
>> $ldapAsME->bind( dn =3D> $entry, password =3D> $myPWD) or die "$@";
>> ###I'm not dying when I pass a bad PWD....why ???
>>
>On Friday, November 01, 2002 10:11 AM, Graham Barr wrote:=20
>Because your code is wrong. ->bind does not return a true/false result.
>All methods return a message object which you must use to determine
>sucess by looking at the code.
>
> =
http://search.cpan.org/author/GBARR/perl-ldap-0.26/lib/Net/LDAP.pod#METHO=
DS
>
Thanks Graham!=20
I do check the $mesg code on all other calls, I didn't realize it =
applied to the bind as well!
Thanks, my code works like a charm now!