Re: Anonymous searches fail with 'invalid DN'

Nevermind - I found the source of the "Invalid DN" error - A typo in my
command. sorry.

Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> In a subsequent section of the same search, I'm trying to do an
> anonymous search. Anonymous binding works (or more accurately, doesn't
> produce an error code). Hoever, when I do search using the same LDAP
> handle, I get an error. I know anonymous searching is allowed, and I can
> verify this using ldapsearch.
> 
> My code for the bind/search is below. Am I doing something wrong? This
> code is almost identical to the first example code on
> http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/perl-ldap-0.40/lib/Net/LDAP.pod
> 
> This code works just fine when I run this code with my Kerberos/GSSAPI
> credentials, but not after I do a 'kdestroy'
> 
> # Anonymous bind (no args = anonymous)
> $mesg = $ldap->bind;
> $code = $mesg->code;
> if ($code == 0) {
>  if ($verbose) {
> 	print "Successfully bound to $hostname\n";
>     }
> } else {
>     $error = $mesg->error;
>     print "Error doing an anonymous bind\n";
>     print "$error\n";
>     $exit_val = '2';
> }
> 
> # Step 3:
> # Perform a search
> # If we fail here, exit status = 1
> $mesg = $ldap->search(base => $base,
> 		      filter => "$attr"
> 		      );
> $code = $mesg->code;
> if ($code == 0) {
>     # Successful doesn't mean we got the results we wanted, though.
>     # Search that returns 0 results is still successful in this case
>     # We really need to check if any entries were returned for this
>     @entries = $mesg->entries;
>     $size = @entries;
>     if ($size != 0) {
> 	if ($verbose) {
> 	    print "LDAP search for $attr successful\n";
> 	}
>     } else {
> 	print "LDAP search for $attr failed\n";
> 	$exit_val = '1';
>     }
> } else {
>     $error = $mesg->error;
>     print "LDAP search operation failed\n";
>     print "$error\n";
>     $exit_val = '1';
> }
> 

-- 
Prentice Bisbal
Linux Software Support Specialist/System Administrator
School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ