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The problem of BINDDN/BINDPW in ldap.conf
Hi, all,
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and LDAP 2.4.23. I'm having difficulty with the basic binding.
I don't want to allow anonymous ldapsearch on the LDAP server so I specify a dn and password for the bind. If I use the following parameters for ldapsearch like
ldapsearch -b "dc=ucsd,dc=edu" -D "cn=admin,dc=ucsd,dc=edu" -w 1234
This works quite fine. Then, I write the parameters into ldap.conf as follows:
-----------------ldap.conf-----------------------
BASE dc=ucsd,dc=edu
BINDDN cn=admin,dc=ucsd,dc=edu
BINDPW 12345
-----------------------------------------------------
Then only BASE has effect. According to the ldap.conf manual, BINDDN is a "user-only" attribute and needs to go in ~/.ldaprc; it doesn't mention BINDPW at all.
But searching on the web, I found several cases that used "binddn" and "bindpw" in ldap.conf and worked successfully. So I'm quite confused for these two directives.
Could anyone explain a little bit to me on BINDDN and BINDPW?
Thanks a lot!!
Tianyin