I don't believe slapd.conf will take a plain text password. try using slappasswd to generate an encrypted form of your desired passwd and insert that into the slapd.conf.
Terry Inzauro
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From: yossef@yossefk.com [mailto:yossef@yossefk.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:47 PM
To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Problems with LDAP
I'm having quite a bit of problems with LDAP. I've done a lot of searching
and reading through the archives, and I haven't found a solution to the
problem.
This is what I am currently trying:
ldapadd -x -D "uid=witthuhn,dc=solomon,dc=physics,dc=sc,dc=edu" -f josh.ldif
-W
Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
for the password, I am putting in secret(because that is what it is set to in
the slapd.conf file)
Here's the slapd.conf file(with all the comments deleted of course):
include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema
pidfile /usr/local/var/slapd.pid
argsfile /usr/local/var/slapd.args
database bdb
suffix "dc=solomon,dc=physics,dc=sc,dc=edu"
rootdn "uid=root,dc=solomon,dc=physics,dc=sc,dc=edu"
rootpw secret
replica host=nuc003.psc.sc.edu:389
binddn="uid=root,dc=solomon,dc=physics,dc=sc,dc=edu"
bindmethod=simple
credentials=secret
replogfile /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.replog
directory /usr/local/var/openldap-data
index objectClass eq
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Here is josh.ldif:
dn: uid=witthuhn,dc=solomon,dc=physics,dc=sc,dc=edu
objectClass: top
objectClass: account
objectClass: posixAccount
uid: witthuhn
cn: Josh Witthuhn
uidNumber: 508
gidNumber: 508
homeDirectory: /home/witthuhn/
userPassword: blah
loginShell: /bin/bash
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Any help would be very appreciated with this.
Thanks,
Yossef Korang