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1perl-ldap - A Client interface to LDAP servers
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3Copyright (c) 1997-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.
4This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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8This code should be considered very much as work-in-progress.
9Any part of this release could be subject to change.
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11The development of the distribution is discussed on a mailing list at
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13 perl-ldap@perl.org
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17 perl-ldap-subscribe@perl.org
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21For the latest information see http://ldap.perl.org/
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23QUICK START GUIDE:
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25 perl-ldap uses the following modules/distributions.
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27 Convert::ASN1 - required
28 URI::ldap - optional, needed for URL parsing
29 Authen::SASL - optional, needed for SASL authentication
30 Digest::MD5 - optional, needed for SASL DIGEST-MD5 auth
31 IO::Socket::SSL - optional, needed for Net::LDAPS
32 XML::SAX::Writer - optional, needed for Net::LDAP::DSML
33 MIME::Base64 - optional, needed for Net::LDAP::LDIF
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35 First ensure the above modules/distributions are installed then
36 build/test/install Net::LDAP by doing
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38 perl Makefile.PL
39 make
40 make test
41 make install
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43 Several modules in the distribution contain documentation. Once installed
44 you can use the 'perldoc Net::LDAP' command to obtain the documentation.
45 This documentation will contain pointers to the other modules.
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49NOTE: Everything that has been deprecated will be removed when V1.00 is
50released, but who knows when that will be.
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