Question about comparing perl variables to LDAP values...

[Cruz d. <cru...@ya...>]

Hi all,

I'm more or less a neophyte when it comes to working with LDAP, and I'm hoping
someone out there might help me with something.  I'm trying to build a
web-based "Change Password" form for our new iPlanet LDAP implementation, and
I've been having trouble figuring out how to compare the user's old password to
their existing LDAP password for verification.  The web form I built encrypts
their passwords (old and new) using MD5, and then passes them to the perl cgi
form-processor, which is supposed to first figure out if their old password
matches their existing one, and then update the password entry with the new
encrypted one...

I'm connecting to the LDAP server without any trouble, but I really don't
understand the usage of Net::LDAP's $ldap->compare function.  In short, the
function doesn't seem to return anything which indicates whether or not the
passwords match.  I'm pretty sure that it comes down to the fact that I don't
really know what I'm doing here, but if anyone out there could provide some
example of this function in action, it would ease my suffering greatly  :)  I'm
quite sure that building a web-based, perl-driven password update form for LDAP
has been done a thousand times before, so any sample code would be tremendously
appreciated.  Thanks!!

-Cruz deWilde 

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