Re: basic question about binding without knowing the DN

2011-04-19 Thread Duncan Brannen
Hi Mark, On 18/04/2011 22:15, Mark Inaba wrote: is there no way to say my DN is 'cn=minaba,DC=foo,DC=com' in the bind request and have the ldap server itself know who i mean? what determines just how many X=y pairs are needed to make a bindable DN? is that configured by the administrator or

RE: basic question about binding without knowing the DN

2011-04-19 Thread Mark Inaba
hi duncan, it worked! it seems a more elegant form than a seemingly arbitrary string of order sensitive descriptors (i guess it's just a path though). after i clean up my script it'll look like i spent 30 minutes writing it :) thanks so much. (thanks to all who responded, it was comforting to kn