Here is a real nail bitter of a problem.

The code that follows works perfects from the commandline. The variable $foo returns "1", which it should. If i change the $pword to something other than password, it returns "0", again as it should.

however, if i run this as a CGI Script $foo ALWAYS returns as "0" regardless to whether the password is correct or not.

Any thoughts on the subject would be great. The only thing i have changed in the below code is the "my" and "domain". Nothing else has been modified from what I ran locally. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
use Win32::OLE;

my $uname = "testuser";
my $pword = "password";

my $foo = &authuser($uname,$pword);

my $query = CGI::new();
print $query->header;

print "$foo \n";

sub authuser {

    my($uname,$pword) = @_;

    my $adpath = 'LDAP://DC=my,DC=domain,DC=edu';

    my $strAttributeName  = "userPrincipalName";
    my $strAttributeValue = $uname;

    my $ad_server  = Win32::OLE->GetObject ('LDAP:') or die $!;
    my $check_user = $ad_server->OpenDSObject($adpath, $uname, $pword,
+ 1);

    if (!Win32::OLE->LastError()) {
        return(1);
    } 

    return(0);
}

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