NAME

OpenInteract::LDAP - Centralized connection location to LDAP directories

SYNOPSIS

# Get a connection to the LDAP directory using the 'main' parameters
# from your server configuration

my $ldap = eval { OpenInteract::LDAP->connect( $CONFIG->{ldap_info}{main} ) };
if ( $@ ) {
   die "Cannot connect to directory: $@";
}

# Bind the connection using the same parameters

eval { OpenInteract::LDAP->bind( $ldap, $CONFIG->{ldap_info}{main} ) };
if ( $@ ) {
   die "Cannot bind to directory: $@";
}

# Do both at once with the same information
my $ldap = eval { OpenInteract::LDAP->connect_and_bind(
                                            $CONFIG->{ldap_info}{main} ) };
if ( $@ ) {
   die "LDAP connect/bind error: $@";
}

DESCRIPTION

Connect and/or bind to an LDAP directory.

METHODS

connect( \%connect_params, \%other_params )

Parameters used:

• host: host LDAP server is running on

• port: defaults to 389

• debug: see Net::LDAP for what this will do

• timeout: defaults to 120

• version: defaults to 2; version of the LDAP protocol to use.

Returns: valid Net::LDAP connection handle, or issues a die explaining why it failed.

bind( $ldap_connection, \%bind_params )

Bind an LDAP connection using a DN/password combination. With many servers, you can do this more than once with a single connection.

Parameters used:

• bind_dn: DN to bind as.

• bind_password: Password to use when binding.

• sasl: If set to true, use SASL for authentication. Note: this is completely untested, and even if it works it only uses the CRAM-MD5 method of authentication.

Returns: LDAP handle with bind() run, or calls die to explain why it failed.

connect_and_bind( \%connect_params, \%other_params )

Run both the connect() and bind() methods.

BUGS

None known.

TO DO

Nothing known.

SEE ALSO

Net::LDAP

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2001 MSN Marketing Service Nordwest, GmbH. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHORS

Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com>