[Fwd] Happy perl-ldap user

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:58:43 +1000 (EST)
From: "GLASSON,Michael" <mic...@de...>
To: "'gb...@po...'" <gb...@po...>
Subject: Happy perl-ldap user

Yes - very nice API. Thanks. I have been using it to do directory
synchronisations between the View500 directory and Exchange. It's so quick
and easy, especially compared to the Netscape version. I do have a question
which hours of research on the Internet have not helped me to resolve. Can
you help me?

Is there any trick to writing a filter to search for entries whose 'member'
attribute has a particular value? That is, what does a filter to search for
a dn in an attribute look like? This has got me stumped (sorry, I'm
Australian) because I can retrieve records with '(member=*)', but not
'(member=c*)'. Further, this last case returns an error, rather than no
records.

I have been trying to write a recursive walk in perl-ldap to give a tree
structured view of distribution lists in Exchange. To do this, I wanted to
find entries whose 'memberof' attribute contained the dn of the known root
of lists. So my problems have started.

Regards
Michael Glasson
Manager of Messaging at an Australian Government office.


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