[PLUG] LDAP Question again

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Apr 5 19:59:30 UTC 2005


On 4/5/05 12:55 PM, R Haack wrote:

> When I run this command:
>    ldapsearch -x -b 'dc=nclack,dc=k12,dc=or,dc=us'
> 
> I get a list back that looks like the following:
> 
> # nclack.k12.or.us
> dn: dc=nclack,dc=k12,dc=or,dc=us
 > [...]
 >
> When I enter the same command below:
> 
>    ldapsearch -x -b 'dc=nclack,dc=k12,dc=or,dc=us' -W
> 
> It to prompts me for the password and enter what I believe to be the 
> password I get "ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)"

Unless it's buried in one of your ldap config files, you need to supply 
ldapsearch its -D option, which specifies the DN you're using to bind to 
the server. E.g,

ldapsearch -D 'cn=Manager,dc=nclack,dc=k12,dc=or,dc=us' ...

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