I do two things with ldap - validation (does the user exist?) and
don’t have any directories that permit one. So you could try
)
if rs
you’re in
else
you’re not
end
Does this work for you?
Works perfectly, thanks! I removed the parens from the filter, however.
My experience has showed me that not all platforms liked the parens and
it works fine without them (at least it does here at work).
Now, what would be the best way to test for the mere presence of a user
record, i.e. no password?
Regards,
Dan
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On 8/15/06, Berger, Daniel [email protected] wrote:
On 8/15/06, Berger, Daniel [email protected] wrote:
Works perfectly, thanks! I removed the parens from the filter, however.
My experience has showed me that not all platforms liked the parens and
it works fine without them (at least it does here at work).
Now, what would be the best way to test for the mere presence of a user
record, i.e. no password?
I noticed you had given your original code sample without parens around
the
filter. Out of curiosity, what kind of LDAP server are you connecting
to?
Searching for a user without binding ought to be easy:
require ‘net/ldap’
ldap = Net::LDAP.new
ldap.host = “ldap.foo.com”
ldap.base = “ou=People,o=foo.com”
rs = ldap.search( :filter => “uid=djberge”)
if rs
puts “DN: #{rs.first.dn}”
end
By the way, you don’t have to instantiate a Net::LDAP object every time
you
need to hit the server. Just instantiate it once and keep it around in a
singleton or global.