[Ruby] simple LDAP query

noir911 · 10-27-2008, 11:26 PM

I'm using ruby-1.8.6 and trying to query my Windows Active Directory LDAP server. But I'm getting connection failed. Could anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Here's the code

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ldap'

ldap = Net::LDAP.new
ldap.host = "ldap.domain.com"
ldap.port = 389
ldap.auth "user_ID", "password"
if ldap.bind
print "success!\n"
# authentication succeeded
else
print "fail!\n"
# authentication failed
end

TB0ne · 10-28-2008, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noir911

I'm using ruby-1.8.6 and trying to query my Windows Active Directory LDAP server. But I'm getting connection failed. Could anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Here's the code

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ldap'

ldap = Net::LDAP.new
ldap.host = "ldap.domain.com"
ldap.port = 389
ldap.auth "user_ID", "password"
if ldap.bind
print "success!\n"
# authentication succeeded
else
print "fail!\n"
# authentication failed
end

Maybe if you included the error message we could.

First thing I'd check is the user ID and password, along with the ldap host name. I'd also make sure you could resolve the name via a ping, or maybe try to put the IP address in, instead of the host name.

noir911 · 10-28-2008, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

Maybe if you included the error message we could.

First thing I'd check is the user ID and password, along with the ldap host name. I'd also make sure you could resolve the name via a ping, or maybe try to put the IP address in, instead of the host name.

When I run the script it says "Fail!" and this is the only error message I get.

I tried putting the IP address with no luck. And, yes, I can ping the host both via IP and host name. The user name and password is also correct.

How can I get verbose debug output to see exactly which line in the script is failing?

TB0ne · 10-28-2008, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noir911

When I run the script it says "Fail!" and this is the only error message I get.

I tried putting the IP address with no luck. And, yes, I can ping the host both via IP and host name. The user name and password is also correct.

How can I get verbose debug output to see exactly which line in the script is failing?

Well, its your program...how would you enable debugging on it? Check out ruby-debug (http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/ruby-debug.html), and see if it can help you.

You can verify that things are working by firing up an email client (like Thunderbird), which supports LDAP. Enter the criteria in it, and see if you can pull up the address book. If you can get coherent LDAP data using something that you know works (command-line query, Thunderbird, etc.), it's probably something like your syntax, or how you're passing things.

noir911 · 10-29-2008, 11:38 PM

Solved. The user ID must be user_name@full.base.of.domain. Thanks to the ruby-talk mailing list for pointing this out to me.