Re: ldap-bind

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<[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
>>     
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>
>
> 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
>
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