That's my problem then. Is there a way to check for bind failure?
-Bryan On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Clif Harden<clifton.har...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > The bind failure will fall back to an anonymous bind, which will allow you > to continue to search and return attributes that an anonymous bind can see. > > Clif Harden > > > > > Bryan Irvine wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Graham Barr<gb...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 10, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I'm using ldaps and when I try to bind to a made up FqDN the scripts >>>> still seems to be able to function. >>>> >>>> Presently I'm binding with: >>>> $ldaps->bind ("totalBSDN=screwDodge") or die("could not bind"); >>>> >>> >>> Net::LDAP methods return Net::LDAP::Message objects, not true/false >>> >>> see http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/perl-ldap-0.39/lib/Net/LDAP.pod#METHODS >>> >> >> >> >> Whoops! ;-) >> >> Does the bind fallback to anonymous mode if it fails? or does it not >> bother authenticating until a process requriing more privs is needed? >> The current operation I'm testing (search) can be done with anonymous >> bind just fine. >> >> -Bryan >> >> > >