Re: ldap-bind

That's my problem then.

Is there a way to check for bind failure?

-Bryan



On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Clif
Harden<[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Clif  Harden
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> Bryan Irvine wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Graham Barr<[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On Jun 10, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote:
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>>>> I'm using ldaps and when I try to bind to a made up FqDN the scripts
>>>> still seems to be able to function.
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>>>> Presently I'm binding with:
>>>> $ldaps->bind ("totalBSDN=screwDodge") or die("could not bind");
>>>>
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>>> Net::LDAP methods return Net::LDAP::Message objects, not true/false
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>>> see http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/perl-ldap-0.39/lib/Net/LDAP.pod#METHODS
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>> Whoops! ;-)
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>> 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.
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>> -Bryan
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