userpassword

[Odell, C. (Dyncorp) <COd...@DT...>]

I found in the archives from last August (with slight modification to
protect the fish)
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to do a compare:
 use Net::LDAP::Constant;
$mesg = $ldap->compare($dn,"userpassword",_properly_encoded_password);
      
if ($mesg->code() == LDAP_COMPARE_TRUE)
{
       auth success
}
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I assume that '_properly_encoded_password' is the encripted password held by
the directory server because
the plain text password does not provide LDAP_COMPARE_TRUE.

Is it possible to obtain username / password validation using perl-ldap if I
have the plain text password. 
I can use normal prompt for user / password for the CGI portion of my
program, but I also need to validate the user as part of a daemon request.
My security folks  feel that passing the encripted password to the daemon
only proves that I was able to access the directory server and ask for the
encripted password.

Thanks,
chauncey