LDAP AUTH

[Shain M. <sm...@tv...>]

Hi,
I have two questions I am hoping you guys can help me with.
1)    I am trying to setup a web app to authenticate with perl-ldap 
(Net::LDAP). The user will submit a form that will contain their 
username and password.  I have written the perl code to contact the ldap 
server and it does the search...what I need to know is how to find out 
if the search was successful.  I don't need the server to return a list 
of usernames, I need to know if the username was found.  If is was found 
good...move on to the password if the username was not found then the 
does not need to check the password. 

2)I am thinking about using the compare feature of perl-ldap for the 
password check but I can not find much documentation on it...does anyone 
know a good spot to look?
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
Shain