Hi Uri, On Friday 25 February 2005 10:29 am Liebeskind Uri (liu) wrote: > I do not understand Net::LDAP::Entry. > > Assuming that a ldap connection is set up: > $ldap = Net::LDAP->new($dc) or die "Connection failed!", $@; > $rc = $ldap->bind( $ldapAdmin, password => $pwd); > die $rc->error if $rc->code; > > I read the example code of Net::LDAP::Entry but I do not understand what > it does. > > 01. use Net::LDAP::Entry; > 02. $entry = Net::LDAP::Entry->new; > 03. $entry->add ( > 04. attr1 => 'value1', > 05. attr2 => [ qw(value1 value2) ] > 06. ); > 07. > 08. $entry->update ( $ldap ); # update directory server > > As far as I understand the code: > 02: create new ldap-entry object > 03: populate object data structure with 2 attributes. > 08: but here: what will be updated on the directory server? > There is no DN specified? It looks like "nirwana code".
You are right, the example should be improved. > > How can $entry be directly bound to a user object like > $dn = "CN=x99,OU=Test,OU=OrgUsers,OU=DepartementX,DC=zhwin,DC=ch"; > without using $ldap->search? Use $entry->dn($dn); Hope it helps Peter PS: please do not reply personally but to the perl-ldap mailing list. -- Peter Marschall eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
