perl-ldap - A Client interface to LDAP servers

Copyright (c) 1997-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This code should be considered very much as work-in-progress. Any part of this release could be subject to change.

The development of the distribution is discussed on a mailing list at

perl-ldap@perl.org

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For the latest information see http://ldap.perl.org/

QUICK START GUIDE:

perl-ldap uses the following modules/distributions. 

        Convert::ASN1    - required
        URI::ldap        - optional, needed for URL parsing
        Authen::SASL     - optional, needed for SASL authentication
        Digest::MD5      - optional, needed for SASL DIGEST-MD5 auth
        IO::Socket::SSL  - optional, needed for Net::LDAPS
        XML::SAX::Writer - optional, needed for Net::LDAP::DSML
        MIME::Base64     - optional, needed for Net::LDAP::LDIF

First ensure the above modules/distributions are installed then build/test/install Net::LDAP by doing 

            perl Makefile.PL
            make
            make test
            make install

Several modules in the distribution contain documentation. Once installed you can use the 'perldoc Net::LDAP' command to obtain the documentation. This documentation will contain pointers to the other modules.

NOTE: Everything that has been deprecated will be removed when V1.00 is released, but who knows when that will be.

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