Perl::LDAP Bind to Active Directory

dmf4171 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to use the Perl-Ldap to bind to Active Directory from a Windows client. Anonymous binds are forbidden as is sending an unencrypted password over the network. This seems like it ought to be really easy but I've tried several things and always hit a wall. Does anybody out there know of a simple, straightforward way of doing this? I don't want to install OpenSSL or anything else that's not part of "standard Windows". It seems that GSSAPI would be the way to go but Net-LDAP doc says it doesn't support that mechanism. It does support CRAM-MD5 but Active Directory doesn't. Thanks, David

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Re: Perl::LDAP Bind to Active Directory by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2009 at 06:27 UTC
I don't want to install OpenSSL or anything else that's not part of "standard Windows". Are you sure? Perl isn't part of "standard Windows" either. http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GBARR/perl-ldap-0.39/Makefile.PL `#recommends('Digest::MD5'), # for DIGEST-MD5 SASL mech #recommends('Digest::HMAC_MD5'), # for CRAM-MD5 SASL mech #recommends('GSSAPI'), # for GSSAPI SASL mech` [download] http://search.cpan.org/~agrolms/GSSAPI-0.26/	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Perl::LDAP Bind to Active Directory
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2009 at 06:27 UTC

I don't want to install OpenSSL or anything else that's not part of "standard Windows".

Are you sure? Perl isn't part of "standard Windows" either.

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GBARR/perl-ldap-0.39/Makefile.PL

    #recommends('Digest::MD5'),        # for DIGEST-MD5 SASL mech
    #recommends('Digest::HMAC_MD5'),    # for CRAM-MD5 SASL mech
    #recommends('GSSAPI'),        # for GSSAPI SASL mech
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http://search.cpan.org/~agrolms/GSSAPI-0.26/

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