Chapter 10. Net::LDAP and Perl
No
book on system administration is complete without some coverage of
scripting. For many administrators, the scripting language of choice
is Perl. Perl is very good at dealing with text files (such as LDIF
files), and many third-party modules make it easy to accomplish
complex tasks.[1][1] For more information on Perl, visit
the O'Reilly Perl web site at http://www.perl.com/ or the Perl
Monger's web site at http://www.perl.org/. If you're
new to Perl, I recommend Learning Perl, by
Randall Schwartz and Tom Phoenix (O'Reilly) and
Programming Perl, by Larry Wall, Tom
Christiansen, and Randall Schwartz
(O'Reilly).
This chapter doesn't cover the basics of Perl
programming. I assume that you are already comfortable with the
language and its fundamental concepts, such as regular expressions,
but none of the examples will require the help of a Perl guru for
interpretation. Note that the scripts in this chapter are generally
lax about conventions used in production Perl code, such as the
use strict pragma and variable
scoping (e.g., my or local).
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LDAP System Administration
By
Gerald Carter
Publisher
: O''''Reilly
Pub Date
: March 2003
ISBN
: 1-56592-491-6
Pages
: 308
If you want to be a master of your domain, LDAP
System Administration will help you get up and
running quickly regardless of which LDAP version you use.
After reading this book, even with no previous LDAP
experience, you''''ll be able to integrate a directory server
into essential network services such as mail, DNS, HTTP, and
SMB/CIFS.