NAME

jpegDisplay.pl - A script to display a jpeg picture from jpegPhoto attribute of an LDAP directory entry.

SYNOPSIS

The intent of this script is to show the user how to retrieve and display a jpeg photo from an LDAP directory entry.

This script has been tested on OpenLDAP 2.0.7 & 2.4.39 directory servers and a Netscape 4.x LDAP directory server.

You may need to change the first line of the Perl jpegDisplay.pl script to point to your file pathname of perl.

Input options.

-b    Search base.
-d    Debug mode.  Display debug messages to stdout.
-D    Distinguished Name for authentication purposes.
-h    LDAP directory host computer.
-w    Authentication password.
-a    Attribute that will be incorporated into the search filter.
-v    Data that will be incorporated into the search filter.
-V    LDAP version of the LDAP directory.
-Z    start SSL encryption using start_tls

Usage: jpegDisplay.pl -b <base> -h <host> -d <number> -D <DN> \
                   -w <password> -a <attribute> -v <data>

Inside the script is a opt hash that can be initialized to default values that can eliminate the need for many of the input options on the command line.

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REQUIREMENTS

To use this program you will need the following.

At least PERL version 5.004. You can get a stable version of PERL from the following URL; http://cpan.org/src/index.html

Perl LDAP module. You can get this from the following URL; ftp://ftp.duke.edu/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Net/

Perl Tk.800.22 module. You can get this from the following URL; ftp://ftp.duke.edu/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Net/

Perl Tk-JPEG-2.014 module. You can get this from the following URL; ftp://ftp.duke.edu/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/Net/

Bundled inside each PERL module is instructions on how to install the module into your PERL system.

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INSTALLING THE SCRIPT

Install the jpegDisplay.pl script anywhere you wish, I suggest /usr/local/bin/jpegDisplay.pl.

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Since the script is in PERL, feel free to modify it if it does not meet your needs. This is one of the main reasons I did it in PERL. If you make an addition to the code that you feel other individuals could use let me know about it. I may incorporate your code into my code.

AUTHOR

Clif Harden <charden@pobox.com> If you find any errors in the code please let me know at charden@pobox.com.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2001 Clif Harden. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.