Re: baffled by active directory

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

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Kurt

At 07:57 AM 3/9/2004, Bee Dutcher wrote:
>Im not sure exactly what I am looking for here, I do know what I want to get from active directory, but I do not know the information that is needed to get it.
>
>Right now, I am authing users on our web portal using this command
>
>$ldapbind = @ldap_bind($ldapconn, 'OEDOMAIN\\' . $_POST['txtUsername'], $_POST['txtPassword'] );
>
>this works fine. However I seem to get baffled if I want to retrieve their firstname and lastname from active directory using ldap commands....i read a lot about cu,cn,ds,dc, and all these acronyms but im not sure WHERE to get that info, or what to tell our administrator as to what I need or how much of it I need.
>
>Can anyone point me to the "light"
>
>Beriah Dutcher
>beriah.dutcher@oppent.org
>219.464.9621x205
>
>
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