Hi,

Benin Technologies wrote: > Hi, > > I needed to access from an LDAP client (Outlook or Thunderbird) some > data stored in several locations (an OpenLDAP server with back-hdb, and > a PostgreSQL database). > > I wrote a perl script used with back-perl, and everything works fine. > The client queries that back-perl server, wich in turn retrieves data > both from the back-hdb server and the PostgreSQL server, does some > formatting on it, and returns it to the client > > It works fine, except that I have to use a standard bindDN/password from > the perl script to access the back-hdb server, because I don't know how > to retrieve in that perl script the initial bindDN/password (the > credentials provided initially by the client). > > I guess there is a way to do it, because I found some links like > http://osdir.com/ml/network.openldap.general/2002-09/msg00021.html where > people seem to have been able to get the bindDN and password provided by > the client, but they didn't say how and I couldn't figure it out. > > Does anybody know if it's possible to get, within the perl script, the > bindDN/password provided by the client ? The DN is the same as for all the other operations - it's the first parameter. The password is the 2nd parameter. How else would you expect it to be passed?

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 03:42:44PM +0100, Benin Technologies wrote: > thanks, but I'm surprised, I don't see the bindDN and password in the > parameter list of the perl subs This has nothing to to with OpenLDAP.