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RE: Is it possible to default bind using the root dn in LDAP.CONF



Perhaps, but as this is related to the generic configuration file for
ldap clients (ldap.conf) I thought it may get some useful responses from
this list too.  I have the feeling that this is related to the access
control lists, but am not certain.

Regards,

Damon

-----Original Message-----
From: Herbst Rainer [mailto:rherbst@rz.uni-potsdam.de] 
Sent: 21 January 2004 16:01
To: damon@damonjebb.net; OpenLDAP-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: AW: Is it possible to default bind using the root dn in
LDAP.CONF

Seems to be a pam specific question, not an OpenLDAP specific one. 

Maybe you should have a look on www.padl.com and their mailgroups?

Regards!
Rainer Herbst




-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von:	Damon [mailto:damon@damonjebb.net]
Gesendet:	Mi 1/21/2004 11:51
An:	OpenLDAP-software@OpenLDAP.org
Cc:	
Betreff:	Is it possible to default bind using the root dn in
LDAP.CONF
I am new to LDAP and struggling with a few things.  One is that although
I have managed to setup a SuSE 9.0 box with OpenLDAP 2.1.22 and a pam
installation that uses pam_unix2.so, version 1.14.  These are the
versions as supplied by SuSE.
 
My problem is that nothing I do seems to get rid of a request for LDAP
authentication when running passwd as root, even for setting the root
password.  I have run debug on the LDAP server that seems to indicate
that it is always using an anonymous bind in the first connection to the
server.  I have read in one of the many howtos and other documents that
I have seen recently that the ldap client should use the root dn
specified in the ldap.conf file and the password in /etc/ldap.secret -
id this true, and if so how can I get this to happen so that it is not
necessary to know the current password before setting a password as
root?
 
I can give trace logs and setup files if required, but am leaving them
out for now to keep things short.
 
Thanks for reading and any help you may be able to offer.
 
Damon