Re: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP

Thanks again. I see you are an early riser too. No, I am not familiar  
with that (I'm not a Perl expert either). I'll look it up and see  
what it can give me.

On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

> Did you try using Data::Dumper? It is a built-in module and is
> incredibly useful. You can use it to dump out the contents of $mesg  
> for
> example.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dennis Putnam [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: den 27 november 2007 13:16
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: Jeremiah Foster
>> Subject: Re: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I'm not an LDAP expert either but this
>> issue is more of a Perl Net::LDAP user than an LDAP expert per se.
>> Unfortunately there are no real world working script examples
>> readily available. The samples that are, show the syntax but
>> not the context, making them pretty much useless to the novice.
>>
>> The script is not 'die'ing so it never really gets to that point.
>> Whether I use '$!' or '$@' won't matter until I actually get
>> an error condition. It appears that everything is working
>> except the search returns zero entries. Since 'ldapsearch'
>> works it is clearly not a server problem. That leaves only
>> the way I am trying to use Net::LDAP. There does not appear
>> to be any way to cause Net::LDAP to generate informational
>> messages about the dialog that occurs between it and the LDAP
>> server. I don't see any way to debug this.
>>
>> On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:20 AM, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jeremiah Foster
>>> Sent: den 27 november 2007 09:20
>>> To: 'Dennis Putnam'
>>> Subject: RE: ldapsearch equivalent with Net::LDAP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am trying to do the equivalent of this search:
>>>>
>>>>      ldapsearch -x -LLL -b "dc=ldaphost,dc=mydomain,dc=com" uid
>>>
>>> Caveat Emptor: I am no LDAP genius.
>>>
>>>> Here is one of the many variations I tried:
>>>>
>>>>      use strict;
>>>>      use Net::LDAP;
>>>>
>>>>      my $ldap=Net::LDAP->new("ldaphost.mydomain.com") or die "$@";
>>>
>>> Try replacing $@ with $!. You are using $@ which is the eval error
>>> message, but I don't see where you are using eval. $! will tell you
>>> what went wrong since it is the sys/libcall error message.
>>>
>>>>      my $mesg=$ldap->bind();
>>>>
>>>>      if ($#ARGV<0) {
>>>>              $mesg=$ldap->search(
>>>>                      base=>"dc=ldaphost,dc=mydomain,dc=com",
>>>>                      attrs=>["uid"]
>>>>              );
>>>>      print $mesg->entries(),"\n";
>>>>      }
>>>>      else {
>>>>      }
>>>>      $ldap->unbind();
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am just starting so my code is incomplete but it should
>> be enough
>>>> to
>>>
>>>> get something. However, I get nothing, not even an error.
>> Can someone
>>>> see what I am doing wrong? TIA.
>>>
>>> See what your code spits out now and diagnose from there. Hopefully
>>> that is a start.
>>>
>>> 	Jeremiah
>>
>>