I have a "dumpuser" script that would dump an LDAP user entry.
Recently, we've added some new data which is binary and as a result,
sometimes my shell crashes when I try to dump a user.

I may not be taking the right approach to this, but I decided after
reading the docs that the right thing to do is use LDAP::LDIF to
generate a customized printout to a file, then print the file contents.
 If there's a better way, please let me know.

So I ran the modified script but I get this error:

Can't locate object method "write_entry" via package "Net::LDAP::LDIF"

Here's most of the full code:


use ldaputils  #my ldap management utility
use Net::LDAP::LDIF;

my $user = "rglasser";
my $file = "./foo";
my $ldap = getldap();  # runs ldap open routine
my $mesg = $ldap->search ( ... );
        # parameters include passing the
        # username (search routine is known to
        # work from previous version)
my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new($file, "w", onerror => 'die');
foreach my $entry($mesg->all_entries) {
    $ldif->write_entry($entry);
}
$ldif->done();





As I said before, it generates a failure on the line with write_entry.
I checked the $ldif handle and it does correctly contain a
Net::LDAP::LDIF object.

Can anyone shed some light on this matter?

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