Re: ldap search problem.

On Feb 5, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Andrew Meng wrote:

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> Hello,
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> LDAP search failed to return any result but I can get the result back using the same base and filter in ldp.exe. Here is the code:
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> !/usr/bin/perl
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> use Net::LDAP;
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> $ldap = Net::LDAP->new("server", port =>389) or die 'Could not contact LDAP server';
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> $ldap->bind("cn=id,DC=aa,DC=bb", password=>"password") or die 'Could not bind';

That line is wrong. bind will ALWAYS return true as it returns a message object. You must check the status code in the object

Graham.