On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 21:19 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've spent today trying to get openldap running under Fedora 7. > The documentation is unbelievably bad - > even worse than sendmail, the previous winner. > It is almost as incomprehensible as my VHS manual in Japanese. > > As far as I can see, openldap people speak a language > unknown to the rest of humanity. > Where normal people say www.myhost.com, > they say "dc=www,dc=myhost,dc=com". > > Anyway, I've got to the stage where I'm trying to install > an address book with ldapadd with > [root@alfred tim]# > ldapadd -x -D 'cn=Manager,dc=alfred,dc=gayleard,dc=com' -W -f /etc/openldap/addressbook.ldif > Enter LDAP Password: > and I get the error > ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49) > > which I find slightly baffling since ldapsearch seems to work ok: > > [root@alfred tim]# ldapsearch -x -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)' > namingContexts > # extended LDIF > ... > # numResponses: 2 > # numEntries: 1 > > So what sort of credentials do they want? ---- whatever the password that is set for the bind address (-D 'cn=Manager,dc=alfred,dc=galeard,dc=com) ---- > Would it be cheating if they dropped a hint? ---- invalid credentials pretty much explains it - bind name/password combination don't work. Recommendation... LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter simplifies everything Craig
