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Posted by gaz_5_m on July 2, 2007, 5:35 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Jun 28, 3:41 pm, Q...@domain.invalid wrote:
> gaz_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote in message-id:
>
> > Hi folks,
>
> > I was just wondering if anyone was using PERL to any great effect to
> > query Active DIrectory.
>
> > I'm in the middle of a fairly large project at work that requires
> > getting (constantly changing) info from AD. I was doing the same
> > things on a daily basis so thought it best to try and script it.
>
> > Is there any way to directly interrogate AD from within PERL. At the
> > moment, the only way I have been able to figure out is to use the
> > Windows Admin Pak to call:
>
> > open query, "dsquery group -name "x" | dsget group -members |";
>
> > from within the script and then use the piped output of the open
> > command to strip out the data that I want.
>
> > It works OK, just takes a hell of a long time!
>
> > The other issue I get is the default return size that is set in our AD
> > environment, 1000, so groups with any larger than 1000 users return
> > nothing.
>
> > I know you can get round this with VB, but PERL is my language of
> > choice! :-)
>
> > Anyone with any tips?
>
> Yeah you probably want to use Net::LDAP
> it is part of the perl-ldap package
> btw this will work with all major directory services
> Netscape, AD, NDS, and Solaris Directory
Thanks for that. I've been having a look at the LDAP library in PERL
but I'm not as proficient in OO coding as I used to be :-) so it might
take a little time.
One of the reasons I'm looking to change is the speed issues piping
things out to dsget and dsquery. Does using LDAP prove quite speedy
(especially for large queries)?
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