On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:39:07 -0500 "Jeffrey Marans" <Jeffrey.Marans@pwgsc.gc.ca> wrote: > I've installed openldap on a debian woody box and am able to query > slapd from perl scripts and webmin, but ldapsearch returns > ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Can't contact LDAP server. I've > configured /etc/pam_ldap.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and > /etc/libnss-ldap.conf, but getent passwd only looks at /etc/passwd. > > I'm running slapd in debug mode and it doesn't see the ldapsearch > connect attempt. > > I've linked /etc/ldap/slapd.conf to /etc/ldap/ldap.conf just in case > I'm missing something. > hi, I think your 'ldapsearch' is missing the proper configuration file, which - on several linux-systems - is not the same as that for ldap. On Redhat-Systems, for example, you have to configure '/etc/ldap.conf' for the openldap-software and '/etc/openldap/ldap.conf' for ldapsearch to work. Try a 'strace' on 'ldapsearch' and you will see which file it will try to read. hth georg
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