Re: checking modify executes correctly

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 10:19, Edd Dawson wrote:
> I have a routine i use for changing users passwords, and i wanted to put in 
> some code so i can check the password was successfully updated, so i 
> checked the online docs, and came up with the following :
> 
>            my $result = $ldap->modify( $dn, replace => { 'userpassword' => 
> $new_password });
> 
> i was expecting $result to contain either 1 or 0 depending on whether the 
> operation was successful, but instead get 
> "Net::LDAP::Modify=HASH(0x88be34c)" now i know what i'm doing wrong is 
> probably so stupidly basic.. but i can;t figure out why it doesn;t work!!!!

Just try:

  my $result = $ldap->modify( $dn, 
                              replace => { 'userpassword' => $new_password });
  if ( $result->code ) {
     die "Error from modify: ", $result->error;
  }

The POD for Net::LDAP has another example at the bottom of the SYNOPSIS.

Chris

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