Re: ldapsearch failed to authenticate password

["Alexandre Garel" <garel.alexandre@agora.msa.fr>]

Daniel Lim a écrit :

> Hi there,
> I have successfully installed openldap-2.2.14 on SuSe
> SLES 8.1 Linux to work with mysql-3.23.52-27. 
> I can use ldapsearch from another Linux box to
> retrieve successfully a user details from the OpenLDAP
> host with backend MySql using the following options;
> # ldapsearch  -x -h <ldapserver>  -b
> "cn=user1,ou=contacts,dc=example,dc=com"
>
> But when I use the option -W to prompt for simple
> password authentication it fails;
> $ ldapsearch -x -h rajah -W -b
> 'cn=user1,ou=contacts,dc=example,dc=com'
> Enter LDAP Password:
> ldap_bind: Invalid credentials
>  
The user have to be specified with -D option, -b specify the base of the
search
so if you use -W there shall be a -D