confused: after PADL migration, can only search as Manager?

["Brian K. Jones" <jonesy@CS.Princeton.EDU>]

Hi all.  

I finally got the PADL scripts to migrate all of my data into a nice
ldap directory.  (openldap 2.1.12, compiled from source, running on
Redhat 7.3).  

However, I'm now noticing that I seem to be only able to search the
directory as the "Manager".  I'm running all defaults in my slapd.conf
file (this is on a test box in a protected area, btw), which should let
anyone at least read.

Here's what I'm getting:

 > ldapsearch -L -W -D "uid=jonesy,ou=People,dc=my,dc=domain,dc=com"
'uid=jonesy' -x
ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
 >

However, if I use "cn=Manager,dc=my,dc=domain,dc=com" everything is fine
- using all of the same flags and everything.  

How does LDAP check if you're a valid user?  Does it not use the
password that's in the user's entry in the directory itself?  The
authentication stuff is really cloudy for me right now, so excuse my
ignorance.  

brian.