Re: Manage IA5strings with Perl LDAP

On Nov 25, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Clément OUDOT wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after some research on the net, I can't find any perl code that can
> read/write IA5strings.

IA5Strings are basically ASCII strings. The only printable differences
is that IA5 does not have $ or ~

see http://www.zytrax.com/tech/ia5.html

> I suppose we have to use the ASN1 functions, is it right? The goal  
> for is
> to be able to read/write values for example the logonHours attribute  
> in
> Active Directory.

It would seem to me that AD defined logonHours as IA5String as it allows
bytes of any value as logonHours seems to be a bit packed string, see

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10389841#10389841

With Net::LDAP you should be able to pack the string as required for
the logonHours definition and pass it as the attribute value

Graham.

>
>
> If you have some code to do that, please let me know.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Clément OUDOT.
>