I have problem with getting access to userpassword, suggest the correction Security on ldap is simple bind with plain text password. the statement I use is ldapcompare -D 'cn=manager,ou=people,o=abc' -w secret -b 'cn=usr1,ou=people,o=abc' -a userpassword -v passwd1 While above usage I've logged in as a normal user (no root priviledge) Regards Kamlesh Shah