Re: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP

[Dennis Putnam]

I should have guessed. No one in their right mind would be up this  
early. :-)

I tried Dumper and sure enough there was something in  
'errorMessage' (I wonder why it didn't give me an error return?). It  
said "Bad Filter" so now I have something to work with. Thanks.

On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

Heh, I am in Stockholm, Central European Time. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Putnam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: den 27 november 2007 13:42
To: macosx@perl.org
Cc: Jeremiah Foster
Subject: Re: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP

Thanks again. I see you are an early riser too. No, I am not
familiar with that (I'm not a Perl expert either). I'll look
it up and see what it can give me.

On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

Did you try using Data::Dumper? It is a built-in module and is
incredibly useful. You can use it to dump out the contents of $mesg
for example.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Putnam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: den 27 november 2007 13:16
To: macosx@perl.org
Cc: Jeremiah Foster
Subject: Re: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP

Thanks for the reply. I'm not an LDAP expert either but
this issue is
more of a Perl Net::LDAP user than an LDAP expert per se.
Unfortunately there are no real world working script
examples readily
available. The samples that are, show the syntax but not
the context,
making them pretty much useless to the novice.

The script is not 'die'ing so it never really gets to that point.
Whether I use '$!' or '$@' won't matter until I actually
get an error
condition. It appears that everything is working except the search
returns zero entries. Since 'ldapsearch'
works it is clearly not a server problem. That leaves only
the way I
am trying to use Net::LDAP. There does not appear to be any way to
cause Net::LDAP to generate informational messages about
the dialog
that occurs between it and the LDAP server. I don't see any way to
debug this.

On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:20 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremiah Foster
Sent: den 27 november 2007 09:20
To: 'Dennis Putnam'
Subject: RE: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP



I am trying to do the equivalent of this search:

     ldapsearch -x -LLL -b "dc=ldaphost,dc=mydomain,dc=com" uid

Caveat Emptor: I am no LDAP genius.

Here is one of the many variations I tried:

     use strict;
     use Net::LDAP;

     my $ldap=Net::LDAP->new("ldaphost.mydomain.com") or
die "$@";

Try replacing $@ with $!. You are using $@ which is the
eval error
message, but I don't see where you are using eval. $!
will tell you
what went wrong since it is the sys/libcall error message.

     my $mesg=$ldap->bind();

     if ($#ARGV<0) {
             $mesg=$ldap->search(
                     base=>"dc=ldaphost,dc=mydomain,dc=com",
                     attrs=>["uid"]
             );
     print $mesg->entries(),"\n";
     }
     else {
     }
     $ldap->unbind();


I am just starting so my code is incomplete but it should
be enough
to

get something. However, I get nothing, not even an error.
Can someone
see what I am doing wrong? TIA.

See what your code spits out now and diagnose from there.
Hopefully
that is a start.

        Jeremiah