Re: do_bind: invalid dn

[Joshua Lim <joshua__lim@hotmail.com>]

Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 May 2010 19:51:37 Joshua Lim wrote:
>   
> > Hi, I'm a newbie, downloaded a Windows compilation of OpenLDAP v2.4.18
> > from http://www.userbooster.de/en/download/openldap-for-windows.aspx
> >
> > Am having some problems trying to get a client to bind to my setup, the
> > error is: do_bind: invalid dn
> >
> > Hope to receive some pointers.   Thanks.  : )
> >
> >
> > My slapd.conf (i basically used the default, only suffix, rootdn and
> > rootpw is changed):
> > ********************************
> > database    bdb
> > suffix        "dc=click,dc=com"
> > rootdn        "cn=wael,dc=click,dc=com"
> > # Cleartext passwords, especially for the rootdn, should
> > # be avoid.  See slappasswd(8) and slapd.conf(5) for details.
> > # Use of strong authentication encouraged.
> > rootpw        password
> > # The database directory MUST exist prior to running slapd AND
> > # should only be accessible by the slapd and slap tools.
> > # Mode 700 recommended.
> > directory ./data
> > dirtyread
> > searchstack 20
> > # Indices to maintain
> > index mail pres,eq
> > index objectclass pres
> > index default eq,sub
> > index sn eq,sub,subinitial
> > index telephonenumber
> > index cn
> >     
>
> [...]
>
> You don't say if/how/what you loaded data into the directory, so the only 
> assumption we can make is that you were trying to connect as Root DN.
>   
Joshua > Hi Buchan, thanks for replying.  No data, I've not come to that 
yet.  Yes, I'm connecting as Root DN.
>   
> > conn=0 op=0 do_bind: invalid dn (wael)
> >     
>
> "wael" is not a DN. Most likely, you want to bind as:
> cn=wael,dc=click,dc=com
>
> For example, if you have ldapsearch available on the same host, something 
> like:
>
> ldapsearch -x -D cn=wael,dc=click,dc=com -h localhost -W -b '' namingContexts
>   
Joshua >  localhost didn't work, i used my pc name and got:

ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)

Log shows:

slap_listener_activate(2):
>>> slap_listener(ldap://JOSHUAPC:389)
connection_get(10): got connid=0
connection_read(10): checking for input on id=0
ber_get_next
ber_get_next: tag 0x30 len 47 contents:
op tag 0x60, time 1273506428
ber_get_next
conn=0 op=0 do_bind
ber_scanf fmt ({imt) ber:
ber_scanf fmt (m}) ber:
>>> dnPrettyNormal: <cn=wael,dc=click,dc=com>
<<< dnPrettyNormal: <cn=wael,dc=click,dc=com>, <cn=wael,dc=click,dc=com>
do_bind: version=3 dn="cn=wael,dc=click,dc=com" method=128
send_ldap_result: conn=0 op=0 p=3
send_ldap_response: msgid=1 tag=97 err=49
ber_flush2: 22 bytes to sd 2140
connection_get(10): got connid=0
connection_read(10): checking for input on id=0
ber_get_next
ber_get_next on fd 10 failed errno=0 (unknown WSA error)
connection_close: conn=0 sd=10