Re: perl-ad-manager

2010-01-19 Thread John Arends
I've hacked stuff like this together, so I also agree this would be useful. I'm not a huge perl whiz, but I'd be happy to help with testing, etc. On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Justin Alcorn wrote: > I do much the same thing with a series of roll-your-own systems running on > Linux. I'd love to

Re: Help with Active Directory interaction

2008-08-13 Thread John Arends
Thanks Graham. That fixed the problem and the script works now. I actually am able to set the password during the account creation process. I have seen some reports of people unable to do that. Another curiosity that may interest someone is that it appears I can not modify a user and add a gro

Re: Help with Active Directory interaction

2008-08-13 Thread John Arends
That was a really stupid typo which has now been fixed. I'm now getting errors that the entry exists, but I know for a fact that it does not. failed to add entry: 2071: UpdErr: DSID-030502F7, problem 6005 (ENTRY_EXISTS), data 0 Daniel Stutz wrote: displayeName should read displayName.

Re: Help with Active Directory interaction

2008-08-13 Thread John Arends
Thanks for the suggestions so far but I'm still not having any luck. I cleaned up the script a bit based on several of the suggestions. I decided to take the password bit out for now. I can't create an account with no password, so I'm setting userAccountControl to 514 so the account will be cr

Re: Help with Active Directory interaction

2008-08-12 Thread John Arends
Now that I'm binding ok, I'm trying to create a user but running into additional problems. I'm running into this error: failed to add entry: 0057: LdapErr: DSID-0C090B38, comment: Error in attribute conversion operation, data 0, vece at ./create.pl line 36. Thoughts? #!/usr/bin/perl us

Re: Help with Active Directory interaction

2008-08-12 Thread John Arends
Bingo. Adding that line showed me I was not binding correctly. I was able to fix the problem. I'm learning as I go so I appreciate the help. Christopher A Bongaarts wrote: You don't know if you're binding correctly, as you're not checking the return value from the search. Try adding, between

Re: Help with Active Directory interaction

2008-08-12 Thread John Arends
I tried changing that line to: $mesg = $ldap->search(filter=>"(cn=*)", base=>"ou=subOU,ou=myOU,dc=ad,dc=myorg,dc=edu"); and still no output. Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: On 13/08/2008, John Arends <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $mesg = $ldap->search(filter=

Help with Active Directory interaction

2008-08-12 Thread John Arends
I am trying to write a script to do some work with Active Directory. Since my scripts need to run on a Linux machine, I have to use Net::LDAP. I have been going through previous postings and have found some useful information, but I am still having trouble. I took some code I wrote that talked