Re: Ber encoding for ldap response control.

Brian Reichert <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:35:44 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.programming
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:22:55PM -0000, Babu Kopparam wrote:
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> 
> Hi!
> 
> I am using JNDI for LDAP Binding (passing userid and password while creating initialcontext) for authentication purpose.
> 
> In case, the user's password is expirying in x days, i am getting a response control from the context object where the control has the value which is BER Encoded.
> 
> Can some one tell if there is any freeware / opersource project which gives me the BER Decoder.
> OR if this is very simple program, can you share the same with me ?

Use google.  Try 'BER decode' for example.

http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2004-March/004889.html

http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/Convert-BER-1.3101/BER.pod

> Thanks in advance,
> -Babu.

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