I think I got what was going wrong...If I am not wrong 'bind' method uses authentication hence credentials only while making any changes (add/modify/delete) to ldap server.
So if I will use wrong credentials to modify ldap database then it will surely shout... Cheers, Parag On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Parag Kalra <paragka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All > > Just installed LDAP server (OpenLDAP) on Ubuntu with following base root dn > settings: > cn=admin,dc=nodomian > > Added few organisation units to it using command line utility 'ldapadd' and > few using ldap browser - 'phpldapadmin' > > Then I felt like playing with Perl to connect to LDAP server and wrote > following script: > > $ldap_host = "localhost"; > $admin = "admin"; > $domain = "nodomain"; > $dn = "cn=$admin,o=$domain"; > $password = "mypassword"; > $ldap = Net::LDAP->new($ldap_host) or die "Could not establish connection > to LDAP server - $ldap_host \n"; > $ldap->bind($dn,password=>$password) or die "Could not bind to LDAP serrver > - $ldap_host \n"; > > If I set wrong '$ldap_host', it shouts saying - 'could not bind to LDAP > server' and rightly so. > > *However even if I set wrong '$password' or wrong '$dn' scripts still > executes successfully and doesn't shout...* > > Where am I going wrong...? > > Cheers, > Parag > > >
