From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-03-11T20:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-ldap rebinding ?

* Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> [0345 06:45]:
> On Thu 10 Mar 2005 at 20:46:51 +0900, Dick Davies wrote:
> > get user and pass
> > open connection to server
> > bind anonymously
> > map the user to a dn
> > bind as dn and pass <- this goes boom
> > 
> > when I rebind I get an error. Here's a cut down version:
> > 
> > $ irb -r ldap
> > irb(main):001:0> conn = LDAP::SSLConn.new('ldap.server',389,true)
> > => #<LDAP::SSLConn:0x812ec70>
> > irb(main):002:0> a = conn.bind
> > => #<LDAP::SSLConn:0x812ec70>
> > irb(main):003:0> a.unbind
> > => nil
> > irb(main):004:0> b = conn.bind
> > LDAP::InvalidDataError: The LDAP handler is already unbind()'ed.
> >         from (irb):4:in `bind'
> >         from (irb):4

> > if I omit the unbind(), I get 'The LDAP handler is already binded'
 
> Conn#unbind doesn't just unbind from the server; it also destroys the
> connection object when it calls ldap_unbind().
> 
> From ldap_unbind(3):
> 
> UNBINDING
>        The ldap_unbind() call is used to unbind from the directory,

Ok thanks - I've used Perl::LDAP in the past which lets you rebind and
existing connection.

Can I do that with ruby-ldap, or do I need a new connection every time
I check a username/password pair?

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