Re: Active Directory

[Jim H. <ha...@us...>]

The LDAP protocol doesn't know anything about large integers.  I stronly
suspect that what you get back from perl's time() + other manipulations is
exactly what you want.  In Novell-land, the equivalent looks like
20011106120000Z.
  --Jim Harle

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Al Lilianstrom wrote:

> I'm working with Active Directory manipulation from a Unix machine.
> We're going to have a centralized Oracle database feed my code to create
> accounts in AD. One of the items we want to set is the accountExpires
> field - esp for contractors. According to the schema this value is
> stored as a large integer that represents the number of seconds elapsed
> since 00:00:00, January 1, 1970.
>
> It's real easy to get the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. But I'm
> unsure what this large integer format is and how to convert to it.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> 	tia, al
>
> Yes - I'm not a real programmer.
>
> --
>
> Al Lilianstrom
> CD/OSS/CSI
> Al....@fn...
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