Re: First LDAP-Perl Script

On 21 Sep 2009, at 13:53, Graham Barr wrote:

>
> 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

You're right.

Cheers,

Chris