Active Directory search

[vvlad]

Hi,

I am doing an Active Directory search with Perl. It works OK, except that I can not retrieve the groups which names contain a white space.

Any ideas on how to correctly build the filter?

Thanks,

vlad

 

[PaulTEG]

Can you show us some code?
--Paul

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[williey]

You should have no problem accessing OU named with space in between. Same goes for CN. You must have missed out something.

Post your codes like Paul said.

 

[vvlad]

Here it is, nothing special in it:

use Net::LDAP;
$ldap = Net::LDAP->new('server_name:port_no') or die "$@";

# works only with authentication
$rc = $ldap->bind('domain\user', password => 'pwd');
die $rc->error if $rc->code;

my $base = "ou=Organizations,ou=Groups,dc=my_region,dc=my_company,dc=com";
my $scope = "subtree";

$groups = "myGroups";

my $filter = "(cn=$groups)";
	
$mesg = $ldap->search(
	base => $base,
	scope => $scope,
	filter => $filter
	);

$mesg->code && die $mesg->error;
$i = 0;

foreach $entry ($mesg->all_entries)
{
	@uid = $entry->get('cn');
	print $uid[0] . "\n";
}

$ldap->unbind;

If $groups contains a space, nothing is found, otherwise works OK.

vlad

 

[PaulTEG]

have you tried encoding spaces?
"My Groups"--> "My%20Groups"?
--Paul

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[vvlad]

Yes I did, but it didn't work.

vlad

 

[vvlad]

Sorry guys, I was using an old directory schema, it actually works without problems.

vlad

 

[PaulTEG]

no worries

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