RE: newbie looking for binding help

[Michaud Tim-A. <AT...@mo...>]

Jim-

OH thank you so very much! I am much more enlightened to the omnipowerful ways of LDAP now that i can bind.

Cheers!
Timothy Michaud

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harle
To: Michaud Tim-ATM095
Cc: 'per...@li...'
Sent: 2/15/01 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: newbie looking for binding help

Tim, you must bind to a DN (and password), not cn or uid.  Typically,
scripts will do an anonymous bind, do a search with afilter something
like (uid=$uid), get the dn back via ->dn, then use that with the
password for the authenticated bind.
  --Jim Harle

Michaud Tim-ATM095 wrote:

> Hello, I've been researching this for a while, but am unable to
perform a bind. I'm sorry to post what is probably a simple question,
but after days of looking at slim documentation i'm in need of help. If
anyone has links to good beginners perl - ldap documentation, i'd be
happy to hear them.
>
> When i connect to the LDAP server, bind annonomously, and do a search
i am able to retrieve data fine. But when i tried to bind and
authenticate, i began getting an error 32 message. Can you only bind
using the cn and password? or can you use other attributes, like what i
used here- 'uid' ?
>
> Here is my code-
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use Net::LDAP;
> my $host = 'ids.mot.com'; #name of the LDAP host
> my $uid = shift;
> my $pw = shift;
> my $ldap = new Net::LDAP($host);
> #authenticate to the LDAP server as the directory super-user
> my $mesg = $ldap->bind('uid=$uid', password=> $pw);
> die ("failed to bind with ",$mesg->code(),"\n") if $mesg->code();
>
> When i enter what i believe to be correct info, i get an error 32, if
i just leave the l/p info blank, i get an error 48. Is there
documentation on these error codes somewhere?
>
> Sorry and Thanks in advance,
> Timothy Michaud