Re: what's the differnce?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, July 12, 2004 10:24 PM +0200 Christian Schäfer 
<caefer@krachstoff.net> wrote:

> hi all,
>
> I am new here, so: hello! :-)
>
> I wanted to install LABE on my gentoo box, and LABE needs the options -h
> and -p when doing ldapsearch. but on my installation I get problems..
>
> # ldapsearch -D "cn=root,dc=krachstoff.dyndns,dc=org" -W
> works pretty well.
>
> # ldapsearch -D -h localhost -p 636 "cn=root,dc=krachstoff.dyndns,dc=org"
> # -W
> does not.
>
>
> my ldap installation also serves for pam authentication, so localhost
> acces should work. pam makes no problems..
>
>
> but what is the difference of the above mentioned commands and where will
> I have to look for, when I want the second to be functional?

One immediate problem I see is that you've put things between the -D flag 
and the bind DN you are using, which is a violation of the command 
arguments.

man ldapsearch

Your search would look more correct if it was:

ldapsearch -h localhost -p 636 -D "cn=root,dc=krachstoff.dyndns,dc=org" -W

--Quanah



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