Re: absolute newbie -- how do I connect with rootdn

["Lucian Ion" <lucian@softgate.ro>]

Thanks a lot!!! That was it. Looks like it's obvious so please excuse my
ignorance.

lucian


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan-Piet Mens" <jpm@Retail-SC.com>
To: "Lucian Ion" <lucian@softgate.ro>
Cc: <OpenLDAP-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: absolute newbie -- how do I connect with rootdn


> Your rootDN appears to be
> rootdn          "cn=Manager,dc=softgate.ro,dc=ro"
> so use it. The `cn=manager' is not a distinguished name; just part of it!
>
> -JP
>
>
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Lucian Ion wrote:
>
> > I tried connecting with User DN as cn=Manager and password as secret,
connection failed. Then I used slappasswd to generate some encrypted pass I
think, I gave it secret and got
{SSHA}Gl6SqOGg2lNoTBAJkvm7M+9CToE26A2z  I put it in slapd.conf instead of
secret and tried to connect with cn=Manager and secret but it still didn't
work.
> ...
> > database        ldbm
> > suffix          "dc=softgate.ro,dc=ro"
> > #suffix         "o=My Organization Name,c=US"
> > rootdn          "cn=Manager,dc=softgate.ro,dc=ro"
> ....