60.2.3.2 Opening and Closing a LDAP Connection

Function: ldap-open host &optional plist

Open a LDAP connection to host. plist is a property list containing additional parameters for the connection. Valid keys in that list are:

port

The TCP port to use for the connection if different from ldap-default-port or the library builtin value

auth

The authentication method to use, possible values depend on the LDAP library SXEmacs was compiled with, they may include simple, krbv41 and krbv42.

binddn

The distinguished name of the user to bind as. This may look like ‘c=com, o=Acme, cn=Babs Jensen’, see RFC 1779 for details.

passwd

The password to use for authentication.

deref

The dereference policy is one of the symbols never, always, search or find and defines how aliases are dereferenced.

never

Aliases are never dereferenced.

always

Aliases are always dereferenced.

search

Aliases are dereferenced when searching.

find

Aliases are dereferenced when locating the base object for the search.

The default is never.

timelimit

The timeout limit for the connection in seconds.

sizelimit

The maximum number of matches to return for searches performed on this connection.

Function: ldap-close ldap

Close the connection represented by ldap.