Re: ldap->bind not sending passwords

[Christopher A. <ch...@xp...>]

On Thu, 25 May 2000 Sim...@wi... wrote:

>       In the following code I am binding to an ldap server, doing a search for a
>       dn and then binding again with the resulting dn.
Hmm, yes this was what i was going to report a couple of days before...

>       I am using Net::NetLDAP v0.18 and Convert::ASN1 0.06
>       Perl is 5.6.0 and the LDAP server is Novell's eDirectory for NT
> 
>       Basically what seems to happen is that the second bind is not transmitting
>       the password I've given it, so the ldap server decides it is an anonymous
>       bind and it does that and returns success.
> 
I have noticed the same problem with what i belive was v0.17 and ASN 0.05
running on FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE with  perl, version 5.005_03.
We are running against a iplanet LDAP server.

> Any ideas ? 
As a workaround i made a bind in the beginning of the program and an
unbind in the end... Not so elegant but it enabled me to work on other
issues.

>       I've also attached the relevant output pack from debug and also a trace
>       from the LDAP server which bears this out.
> 
I also have some traces (and example code) if someone needs them for
debugging.


	/chris