Hello

I'm talking to active directory through Net::LDAP, and I want to extract user GUIDs in a readable form.

If I query a user, I don't get a GUID field, but instead a nasty contraption called objectGUID. This, I believe is supposed to be a 128bit binary field. In a debugger, it looks like this:

  'objectGUID' => 'Q?Ot?qM?r/?'

I have a GuidToString routine, filthily stolen from the internets, which I have posted below. In a nutshell, I'm looking for a hex string in the form: "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX"

The below code gives me that, but something is just not right, especially as most of the strings I get back have > 8 0's on the end in most cases.

Has anybody played with this before? Afaik, guid is the only thing that can never change on a users ad account, and I need to record these for a intranet based web app.

Any help much appreciated...

Here's that routine...

sub GuidToString
{
        return sprintf "%08X-%04X-%04X-%02X%02X-%02X%02X%02X%02X%02X%0
+2X",
                unpack("I", $_[0]),
                unpack("S", substr($_[0], 4, 2)),
                unpack("S", substr($_[0], 6, 2)),
                unpack("C", substr($_[0], 8, 1)),
                unpack("C", substr($_[0], 9, 1)),
                unpack("C", substr($_[0], 10, 1)),
                unpack("C", substr($_[0], 11, 1)),
                unpack("C", substr($_[0], 12, 1)),
                unpack("C", substr($_[0], 13, 1)),
                unpack("C", substr($_[0], 14, 1)),
                unpack("C", substr($_[0], 15, 1));
}

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In reply to Net::LDAP GUID... by muffinman

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