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
>

Thanks for your answer. I have to translate java code to perl ;) But
another question, it seems the value we get from AD is binary, I use the
"raw" attribute in Net::LDAP search but the value I get is not what I can
see with an ldapsearch... Is there a better way to manage binary data in
perl-ldap ?

Clément.