Solution: Re: ldapsearch issue with rootpw.

["James Hartley" <james.hartley@gmail.com>]

Thank you that was it.  Your suggestion worked.  I  hate being such a
newbie.   Appreciation all around.

James

On 7/5/06, Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, James Hartley wrote:
>
> > I have been fighting and issue (non-issuse??) for awhile now.  I am
> > attempting to issue the following command
> >
> > #ldapsearch -x -LLL -w secret "objectclass=*"
> >
> > I continue to get the error
> > ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49).
>
> You have not specified the rootdn with which to bind.  Based on your
> example, it should be:
>
> ldapsearch -x -LLL -D "cn=Manager,dc=bogus,dc=net" -w secret
> "(objectclass=*)"
>
> (Note the parentheses around the filter, but it appears to work without
> them.)
>
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