perl ldap "like search"

[j0nxuser]

What would be the best way to search for a user in LDAP with a "like". I have a list of people that need to verified/validated in our corp. LDAP directory. The problem is if the cn attribute contains anything other "firstname lastname" my search fails (rightly so - I'm looking for an exact match). Now, what can I do when I have a name like "Jay Carnell" and I have the following attributes:

cn = "Jay Carnell II James Carnell II"
sn = "Carnell II"
givenname = "Jay James"

Can you do a like match on cn? (if so, how)

Thank you!
Mark

 

[MillerH]

It's not possible to suggest a total solution without more information. However, all I believe your searching for is an exposure to regular expressions:

[url=http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/my.html][black][b]my[/b][/black][/url] [blue]$cn[/blue] = [red]"[/red][purple]Jay Carnell II James Carnell II[/purple][red]"[/red][red];[/red]

[olive][b]if[/b][/olive] [red]([/red][blue]$cn[/blue] =~ [red]/[/red][purple]Jay Carnell[/purple][red]/[/red][red])[/red] [red]{[/red]
	[url=http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/print.html][black][b]print[/b][/black][/url] [red]"[/red][purple]Matched[purple][b]\n[/b][/purple][/purple][red]"[/red][red];[/red]
[red]}[/red]

- Miller

 

[j0nxuser]

Sorry about that. Let me ask it this way, is there a way to do this exclusively within Net::LDAP?

My ultimate goal is to take a list of names and throw them into LDAP to see if they are valid. The problem that I have is that I only have a first name and a last name. Using some examples below:

1) Pate,Joe
cn= Jj Pate Jr Joe Pate Jr
sn= Pate Jr
givenname= Jj Joe

2) Carnell,Jay
cn= Jay Carnell II James Carnell II
sn= Jay James
givenname= Carnell II


sn=lastname
cn=wholenames
givenname=firstname

With Net::LDAP I would like to see if these users match in the "cn" attribute, however not knowing how to do that, I am guessing that I can match on the last name "sn" and throw all of these results into an array (along with the first name). Then I can loop through all of them until I get a match. But the next problem is that the givenname attribute may say:

Jay James or Mike Michael

Which means that I would have to use regex to split multiple first name matches. All of the said, I was wondering if there was a "like" in Net::LDAP.

Is this possible?
$mesg = $ldap->search(
base => $base_dn,
scope => 'sub',
filter => 'cn=~/Jay Carnell/'
);



I hope that makes sense.

Thanks again, Mark

 

[MillerH]

Well, I've never used that module or functionality before. However...

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Net::LDAP

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Net::LDAP::Filter

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Net::LDAP::FAQ

According to the doc above, you just create a filter and do a search. The syntax is spelled out in the Net::LDAP docs.

- Miller

 

[j0nxuser]

Miller - I started to look at some of these documents and believe that they will be able to help me out.

Thanks again and will keep ya' posted.

Mark