[PLUG] LDAP help
Chris Jantzen
chris at maybe.net
Tue Aug 10 15:38:02 UTC 2004
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:32:08PM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, R. Haack wrote:
>
> >I'm having some problems with getting my LDAP server going. I'm running
> >Fedora Core 2 and I've done all of the udpates. The server seems to start
> >and run just fine, but the problem comes when I attempt to convert users.
> >I've run ldappasswd to get an encrypted password which I then pasted into
> >my slapd.conf file. The problem comes when I attempt to convert users.
> >I'm issuing the following command:
> >
> >ldapadd -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=k12,dc=or,dc=us" -W -f nclack.ldif
> >
> >When it asks me for the password I get the following error message:
> >
> >ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
> >
> >Can anybody tell me what is going on and how to resolve this issue?
>
> Assuming you typed the ldapadd invocation correctly above, you're
> using the wrong binddn (-D), because in your config file the root
> account has a different dn:
>
> rootdn "uid=Manager,cn=users,dc=k12,dc=or,dc=us"
>
> Try instead
>
> ldapadd -D "uid=Manager,cn=users,dc=k12,dc=or,dc=us" [...]
Actually, now that you point this out, this is a horrible tree. cn=
shouldn't appear along the middle of the path, and you should have
some additional dc= or ou= components, unless you really ARE building
an LDAP tree for ALL of K12 in Oregon... :-)
--
chris kb7rnl =->
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