Re: ldap-bind

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Graham Barr<[email protected]> 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