Re: new user authentication

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

> 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

If you are not using a SASL bind (the default), you must specify "-x"

man ldapsearch
....
 -x     Use simple authentication instead of SASL.

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