Thanks Chris,

got your code to work, but had to install Net::LDAP and all it's required modules by hand...

Just a couple of questions though - I'm specifically looking for one user, based on their email address |(or full name) and I only need to know their department details. Do I have to load all information about all employees - it's a pretty big company and I'm worried about memory and performance issues. Is it possible to request information on just one person?

thanks,
A

UPDATE:
Got this to work by changing the base to just "o=$org", and changing the filter to "(&(cn=*) (uid=$uid))". I also added "$entr->dump" to get all the values stored.