Re: Trying to connect as specific dn through socket

[Philip Guenther <guenther+ldapsoft@sendmail.com>]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Scott Grizzard wrote:
> I am trying to connect the root user through the ldapi:// socket as the 
> admin dn, and I can't make it work.
...
> olcAuthzRegexp: "gidNumber=0\\\+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth"
> "cn=admin,dc=scottgrizzard,dc=com"
...
> When I do ldapwhoami -H ldapi:/// as root, I get
> SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
> Please enter your password:
> 
> When I do ldapwhoami -H ldapi:/// -x as root, I get
> anonymous

You want it to use SASL EXTERNAL authentication, so try passing ldapwhomai 
the option -Y EXTERNAL.
	ldapwhoami -H ldapi:/// -Y EXTERNAL


Philip Guenther