I do seem to recall a bug in this part of the code in a previous release.
What version of Net::LDAP do you have installed ?
Graham.
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:29:35PM -0900, Brian Avis wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Having problems with ldap search and was hoping someone could help me
> out.
>
> I am writing a utility to let our admin staff add and remove a user from
> a group or a list of groups on the ldap server.
>
> So when the username is entered one of the first things I check is
> whether that user is in the LDAP server or not.... if they are then get
> their DN.
>
> This is the code in question.
>
> $mesg = $connection->search(base => $basedn,
> filter => "(uid=$uid)",
> timelimit => 10);
>
>
> if ($mesg->code) {
> print $mesg->code." ".$mesg->error;
> print "\n";
> } else {
>
> my $entry;
> while ($entry = $mesg->pop_entry()) {
>
> $entry = $mesg->pop_entry();
>
> }
> }
>
> if (!defined $entry) {
> print "\n$realname is not a valid user in the LDAP server\n";
> redo;
> }
>
> my $userDN = $entry->dn();
>
>
> The funny thing is that this was working for a couple of days but has
> quit working this afternoon. Go figure. Now though, when it gets to the
> $entry = $mesg->pop_entry(); line it hangs. The programs stops
> responding (and yes I waited a good long time for it to come back). When
> I looked up the pop_entry bit in the documentation this is all I found.
>
> pop_entry
> Pop an entry from the internal list of Net::LDAP::Entry
> objects for this search. If there are not more entries
> then undef is returned.
>
> This call will block, if the list is empty, until the
> server returns another entry.
>
> The last bit where it says this call will block if list is empty is
> probably what is causing me problems.
>
> So I guess the question is what is the best way to tell if a user exists
> in the LDAP server and if they do exists what is the best way to return
> their DN?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> --
> Brian Avis
> SEARHC Medical Clinic
> Juneau, AK 99801
> (907) 463-4049
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>
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