Re: Search Filter Problem - Can't Search on cn or givenName

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Philip Lembo <pl...@ar...> wrote:
> I hope you'll all excuse what's probably a really basic error on my part,
> but I'm having trouble with any search filter that includes givenName or
> commonName as a term. Both these attribs are indexed sub, eq and pres.
> We're using Netscape Directory 4.12 here.
> 
> My script loops through a .csv file which includes the First and Last Name
> of a user on each line. What I'm trying to do is match against either
> First AND Last Name or Full Name (cn) on the Directory. It does work if I
> only include the Last Name (although the result of such a search is
> pretty much useless for my purposes).
> 
> Here's my code (excuse the poor programming style, Until a year ago I was
> just an NT desktop guy -- better to be embaressed than to continue in
> ignorance though):
> 
> use strict;
> use Net::LDAP;
> use Text::ParseWords;
> 
> # Global variables for bind
> my $host = 'ldap.arrow.com';
> my $ldap = new Net::LDAP($host);
> my $mesg = $ldap->bind('cn=Directory Manager', password=> 'xxxxxxx');
> die ("failed to bind with ",$mesg->code(),"\n") if $mesg->code();
> 
> # Open the data files
> open INFILE, '<users.csv' or die $!;
> open OUTFILE, '>users-uid.csv' or die $!;
> 
> # Print a header in the outfile
> print OUTFILE "LanId,LName,FName,Guid,Email\n";
> 
> # Parse infile, format: LanId, LName, FName
> while (<INFILE>) {
> 	chomp;
> 	my ($LanId,
> 	    $LName,
> 	    $FName
> 	)
> 		= ( &parse_line(',',0,$_));
> 
> my $CName = "$FName $LName";
> 
> # Set up search variables
> 	my $attrs = "uid,sn,givenname,mail,cn";

Ah, that should be:

	my $attrs = ["uid", "sn", "givenname", "mail", "cn"]

because the attr argument to search takes a reference to a list as the
parameter. (Which is what the [ and ] construct.)

As it stands, you're asking the server to return a single attribute called
"uid,sn,givenname,mail,cn", which probably won't exist.

What result code is returned from the searches, and how many results come
back from each one?

Cheers,

Chris