From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T05:53:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Net::LDAP 0.0.4 released

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On 8/15/06, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
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>  > On 8/15/06, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
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> 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.

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