new user authentication

[Brandon McCombs <bmccombs@ma.rr.com>]

hello,

I can't seem to find documentation stating exactly how to authenticate 
against OpenLDAP using a user account I just created.  I'm trying to 
authenticate using my own ldap client that I developed so using that I 
keep getting the error 49 regarding invalid credentials despite using 
cn=user1,dc=mydomain,dc=com as the dn and "abcdef" as the password.  If 
I use ldapsearch on the commandline in linux and attempt to do a search 
and authenticate then ldapsearch wants to keep using the user that I'm 
logged in as for the user to authenticate to ldap with (which isn't 
right since I'm specifying the same user mentioned above along with the 
password) and doing that I get an error 80 "user not found: no secret in 
database"

The command line I use for that is:
ldapsearch -b dc=mydomain,dc=com -D cn=user3,dc=mydomain,dc=com -w 
abcdef objectclass=* 1.1

Do I need to do anything with slapd.conf?  I'm not sure what else to try.
Any pointers?

thanks