Re: First LDAP-Perl Script

On Sep 21, 2009, at 5:41 AM, Chris Ridd wrote:

>
> On 20 Sep 2009, at 18:44, Parag Kalra wrote:
>
>> I think I got what was going wrong...If I am not wrong 'bind'  
>> method uses
>> authentication hence credentials only while making any changes
>> (add/modify/delete) to ldap server.
>>
>> So if I will use wrong credentials to modify ldap database then it  
>> will
>> surely shout...
>
> Not quite.
>
> All the 'operation' methods like bind(), add(), modify(), search(),  
> etc return undef if there was a problem sending the operation to the  
> server.

No, they will always return a Net::LDAP::Message object. If there is a  
local error then $res->code will be LDAP_LOCAL_ERROR

Graham.