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Re: getting bindDN in perl script



Benin Technologies wrote:
Hi,

I needed to access from an LDAP client (Outlook or Thunderbird) some
data stored in several locations (an OpenLDAP server with back-hdb, and
a PostgreSQL database).

I wrote a perl script used with back-perl, and everything works fine.
The client queries that back-ldap server, wich in turn retrieves data
both from the back-hdb server and the PostgreSQL server, does some
formatting on it, and returns it to the client

It works fine, except that I have to use a standard bindDN/password from
the perl script to access the back-hdb server, because I don't know how
to retrieve in that perl script the initial bindDN/password (the
credentials provided initially by the client).

I guess there is a way to do it, because I found some links like
http://osdir.com/ml/network.openldap.general/2002-09/msg00021.html where
people seem to have been able to get the bindDN and password provided by
the client, but they didn't say how and I couldn't figure it out.

Does anybody know if it's possible to get, within the perl script, the
bindDN/password provided by the client ?

The DN is the same as for all the other operations - it's the first parameter. The password is the 2nd parameter. How else would you expect it to be passed?

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