perl-ldap - A Client interface to LDAP servers ******************************************************************************* This release is a development release to obtain feedback. Any part of this release could be subject to change. The development of the distribution is discussed on a mailing list at perl-ldap@mail.med.cornell.edu. to subscribe send a message to perl-ldap-request@mail.med.cornell.edu. with the word subscribe in the subject and body. ******************************************************************************* Copyright (c) 1997-1998 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. For the latest information see http://www.connect.net/gbarr/perl-ldap/ QUICK START GUIDE: perl-ldap uses the following modules/distributions. Convert::BER - required libwww-perl - optional, needed for URL parsing Digest::MD5 - optional, needed for SASL CRAM-MD5 auth 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. Many things from the previous release have been depricated in this release. These are ->ldapbind() is now ->bind() Error constants now start with LDAP_ instead of ldap, this is for consistency with other libraries ->read_ldif and ->ldif methods on Net::LDAP::Entry objects has been replaced by the Net::LDAP::LDIF module option names to methods are now passed in all lowercase without the leading - ->get_attribute in Net::LDAP::Entry has been replaced by ->get ******************************************************************************* NOTE: Everything that has been depricated will be removed when V1.00 is released, but who knows when that will be. ******************************************************************************* Share and Enjoy!