Re: Authenticating against slapd installed from package

["Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Marc Tardif <marc@interunion.ca> writes:

> I have installed OpenLDAP 2.2.26 from package on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. The
> postinst script prompts for a password to create an admin user. However,
> when I try to run the ldapsearch command as the admin with that password, I
> get the following error message:
>
>   $ ldapsearch -x -w password -D "cn=admin,dc=nodomain" '(objectclass=*)'
>   ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
>
> It seems that the binddn is listed on the database. Here is the relevant
> output from the slapcat command:

I do hope that binddn is not rootdn, otherwise it would be a rather
bad idea.
[...]

> So, any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

The password is stored as crypt hash, is slapd linked with libcrypt?

-Dieter

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