AD User Exist?

helmex has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,
I am trying to find a way to check if a user exists in specific Originization Unit. I cannot use a typical if statement on my list of users:

$path='cn=username,ou=mybase_ou,dc=computer,dc=com';
if (my $objUser = Win32::OLE->GetObject("LDAP://" . $path)){
}
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Because the program will die as soon as I reach a username that does not exists, because the bind fails. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated

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Re: AD User Exist? by boo_radley (Parson) on Nov 30, 2004 at 21:12 UTC
When I had to do this, I did it with Win32::AD::User. `$user=Win32::AD::User->new("WinNT://DOMAIN/username,user","username"); $user->get_info(); print join "\n",$user->get_groups();` [download] if $user's undef, there's no account there.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: AD User Exist? by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Nov 30, 2004 at 21:55 UTC
A typical way to handle that are try/catch blocks, which in Perl are implemented with eval (the block form). When you wrap the call in an `eval`, it will trap the `die`, and let you inspect the result. Something like this in your case: `$path='cn=username,ou=mybase_ou,dc=computer,dc=com'; eval { $objUser = Win32::OLE->GetObject("LDAP://" . $path); }; if ($@) { # the call died, do something or another. }` [download] You can read more about this in perlfunc, under `eval`. Do not rebuke them with harsh words ... but rather lead them gently - with URLs - so that they may learn wisdom.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: AD User Exist? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 01, 2004 at 14:33 UTC
Thank you, Eval worked perfectly.	[reply]
Re: AD User Exist? by Stevie-O (Friar) on Dec 01, 2004 at 00:29 UTC
My suggestion is similar to VSarkiss's: `my $objUser = eval { Win32::OLE->GetObject("LDAP://$path") }; # now, $objUser will either be an object (if it worked), or # undef (if it didn't work).` [download] --Stevie-O `$"=$,,$_=q>\|\p4<6 8p<M/_\|<('=> .q>.<4-KI<l\|2$<6%s!<qn#F<>;$, .=pack'N',"@{[unpack'C',$_] }"for split/</;$_=$,,y[A-Z a-z] {}cd;print lc` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: AD User Exist? by ekkis (Initiate) on Nov 30, 2004 at 21:09 UTC
wrap the stmt in a try?	[reply]


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