RE: Does any one know how to call LDAP from UNIX script ?

Interesting, Charlie! By the name of this script, I assume it's used to change your Oracle password, but it's not searching against OiD, unless you've manually added the "Directory Manager" cn. Are you using iPlanet? Are your Oracle clients authenticating against this LDAP server? Or for Oracle names resolution?

Very interesting. Especially since Oracle Support now balks at every mention of a non-OiD LDAP server for Oracle lookups. And the stupid netca (Net Config Assist) is the only supported method of creating an "Oracle Context" in LDAP (in order to use OiD for Oracle names resolution). Of course it only takes a little work to create the correct LDIFs to create your own "Oracle Context" in iPlanet... :D

<soapbox>
The reason I'm asking is because OID IS A PAIN. Even v3. Documentation is horrible, replication is a bear, and OiD is not LDAP. From a co-worker who has setup iPlanet in-house, it looks like Oracle's gone off on their own to try and change the loose LDAP "standard". This gets to be a pain when you're trying to debug an LDAP problem, but since Oracle's moved the location of LDAP attributes, for example, you can't readily use widely available LDAP documentation and examples to troubleshoot. You must use Oracle Support. That's fine, but I don't want to have to log another 25 TARs to get answers to what should be simple questions. </soapbox>

Ahhhhh...that felt good.

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Mengler [mailto:charliem_at_mwh.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:54 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Does any one know how to call LDAP from UNIX script ?
>
>
> I hope you can read UGLY Perl code.
>
> HTH & YMMV!
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> # File: chg-oracle-passwd.cgi
> use Net::LDAP;
> use Carp;
> use DBI;
>
> [truncated for brevity]

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