Re: Newbie Question

[<Bob...@kp...>]

moo...@pg... wrote:



Hi All--

I just started working with Perl-ldap today, so bear with me if this is a 
silly
question.

I've got a connection to our LDAP server, and have been able using 
perl-ldap to
go in and get information for users, which is great.   However, I also 
need to
authenticate these users..tried just binding as a user + pass, but that 
didn't
work (it seems to just treat this as an anonymous access).

So far, I can't find anything about authentication in the faq...should I 
be
looking at another module, or does perl-ldap do authentication and I'm 
just
missing where it's documented?

Thanks in advance!
Lori Moore


Take a look at this --


   162      my $msg = $ldap->bind(
   163          dn       => $dir_manager,
   164          password => $password,
   165      );
   166      if ( $msg->code() ) {
   167          croak( "$0: LDAP bind to $directory_name failed with ",
   168              $msg->code(), " -- ", $msg->error(), "\n" );
   169      }


Plug in the fully qualified DN of the user in $dir_manager and the proper 
password in $password.

Hope this helps


Bob G