Re: migrating remotely

[Ziya Suzen <ziya@ripe.net>]

(Assuming you are trying to bind as 'rootdn')

Use rootdn (in slapd.conf) to bind (-D option) and make sure you have
the right password. To test you can enter the rootpw in cleartext, in
case md5 hash isn't right.

See http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/231.html as well.

On 2003-02-14 17:01:09 +0000, Robert Canary wrote:
> I am trying to migrate my dialup server to the LDAP server.  I was
> looking for some clues on how to do this....
> 
> I used the -H ldap://ldap.server.com commadlin directive on the
> ldapsearch line to see if it found the server and could talk to it.  It
> did okay.  however, when I try to do it with the ldapadd it will find
> the server and asks for a password, but it will not except the password.
> Well....it says ldap_bind: Invalid credentials.  I thought maybe a
> fudged the password entry in the LDAP server so I went back and rentered
> the password with (MD5),...,I still got the same results.  The LDAP
> server isn't putting out anything for debuging in the local4 file to
> tell me which credentisal are failing.

You can start slapd with '-d NUM' on the command line to see whats
going on. It helps me a lot. Check out
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin21/runningslapd.html 'Debugging
Levels'

Ziya.

> 
> Any ideas ??
> thank in advance :-)
> --
> robert