Re: Insufficient access or Invalid credentials

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 08:59 AM 2001-08-28, Nookala, Siva wrote:
>I am trying to add an ldif file to LDAP by the following command 
>
>ldapadd -h localhost -p 9009 -f ../stooges.ldif -D
>"cn=stoogeAdmin,o=stooges" -w secret

Your DN here doesn't match your rootdn and your rootdn is not
within any context (under a suffix) held by the server.



>I always get invalid credentials or insufficient access. I do not have root
>privileges. So, I am running slapd under my user name. Following is part of
>my slapd.conf file.
>
>What might be wrong?
>
>#######################################################################
># ldbm database definitions
>#######################################################################
>
>database        ldbm
>suffix          "o=stooges"
>suffix          "dc=ldap,dc=stooges,dc=org"
>#suffix         "o=stooges,c=US"
>rootdn          "cn=stoogeAdmin,dc=stooges"
>#rootdn         "cn=Manager,o=stooges,c=US"
># Cleartext passwords, especially for the rootdn, should
># be avoid.  See slappasswd(8) and slapd.conf(5) for details.
># Use of strong authentication encouraged.
>rootpw          secret
>defaultaccess read
>schemacheck   on
>lastmod       on
># The database directory MUST exist prior to running slapd AND
># should only be accessible by the slapd/tools. Mode 700 recommended.
>directory       /export/home/siva/openLDAP/var/openldap-ldbm/stooges
># Indices to maintain
>#index  objectClass     eq
>index   cn,sn,st        pres,sub,eq
>
>Siva Nookala