Exact syntax for the LDAP Username Edit Function

Hi,
I have followed the How-To on setting up LDAP as an authentication method but I am having trouble specifying the "Username Edit Function".
I have a database table which contains a list of user email addresses and associated distinguished name (dn) as stored in an external LDAP...I populated this table using DBMS_LDAP. I want to allow the user to enter his/her email address and email password and execute a small lookup function (GET_DISTINGUISHED_NAME) to fetch the corresponding DN and pass it along to the built-in LDAP authentication.
I have tried several things to get this to work such as:
"get_distinguished_name(p_username)" - Returns ERR-10412 and then ORA-06550: line 2, column 1: PLS-00801: internal error [22503] ORA-06550: line 2, column 1: PL/SQL: Statement ignored.
"get_distinguished_name(p_username);" - same as above.
and so on. Rather than list each and every attempt here, could someone tell me what the syntax should be for specifying this function call?
Thanks in advance,
Ted

Hi, Sergio
Thanks for this. I had read the "Using LDAP for Login Authentication" document but I guess I did not correctly understand the "Enter 'return your_function;'" instruction properly...I thought I had to pass p_username as a parameter to my function. After ensuring that "p_username" was the name of the parameter in my function definition, I hit another error but another post in this forum showed me how to fix that issue (Re: Error ERR-10416 Error executing wwv_flow_custom_auth_ldap.authenticate Nov 20, 2003 5:24 PM ) and I am now able to get the LDAP Tool to authenticate okay.
Do you think I can dynamically set the value for the "LDAP Host" field? We actually have two different email systems (results of a recent merger) and I'll need to find a way to have my LDAP authentication go against one or the other, depending upon what organization they were originally from. I can get this LDAP Host IP Address from my database tables but I am not sure how I could set it within the Authentication Scheme. Could I do something in the "Pre-Authentication Process"?
Ted

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