Re: basic login fails : here are some logs ...

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

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Olivier wrote:
> I have problem to use my openldap 2.4 server for authentication on a 
> fedora 14 : it sounds that the problem is on the on the client side 
> configuration.
...
> conn=1220 op=1 SRCH base="ou=People,ou=staff,dc=mydomain,dc=fr"
> scope=2 deref=0 filter="(uid=olivier)"
> conn=1220 op=1 SRCH attr=host authorizedService shadowExpire
> shadowFlag shadowInactive shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowMin
> shadowWarning uidNumber
> conn=1220 op=1 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=32 nentries=0 text=

err=32 == LDAP_NO_SUCH_OBJECT  Does ou=People,ou=staff,dc=mydomain,dc=fr 
exist?


...
>  dn: uid=olivier,ou=Staff,ou=People,dc=mydomain,dc=fr

Ah: which comes first in the dn: Staff or People?  The good results from 
ldapsearch show ou=Staff,ou=People,dc=mydomain,dc=fr while the failing 
search is of ou=People,ou=staff,dc=mydomain,dc=fr.


Philip Guenther