basic question about binding without knowing the DN

2011-04-14 Thread Mark Inaba
hello perl-ldap mailing list, i'm wondering if i'm trying to do the impossible, even though it seems like this might be a common situation. i'm trying to verify a user/password by having the user bind to an ldap server. the problem is that just given a username, i can't guess the DN because the

RE: basic question about binding without knowing the DN

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Inaba
wherever that is... thanks much for your help! i guess if i can't find what makes the ldap.exe magical, i'll just sit on my current script version that uses a reader account and cross the bridges as they appear... -mark -Original Message- From: Dan Cutler [mailto:dcut...@inte

RE: basic question about binding without knowing the DN

2011-04-19 Thread Mark Inaba
forting to know others had been puzzled by this before, though i guesss they had reader accounts to do the advance scouting for their binds) -mark -Original Message- From: Duncan Brannen [mailto:d...@st-andrews.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:33 AM To: Mark Inaba Cc: 'per