> I went ahead and got the ldapsearch. It worked. > ldaplist is just busted, I guess. No ldaplist just depends on a successfull creation of the /var/ldap/* files. > >> - make sure the posix account has the >> "shadowAccount" attribute > > Added it. I went to user, properties, posixAccount, > advanced, add value -> shadowAccount. Not sure if > that's the right way of doing it or not... That's ok >> - use : ldapclient -v -P default -D >> "cn=proxyagent,ou=profile,dc=domain,dc=nl" -d >> domain.nl -w proxy_password >> {ipnumber_ldap_server} , to create the ldap_file & >> ldap_cred files > > Yea -- that's where I hit another problem: Nope this is the main problem. > > Handling init option > About to configure machine by downloading a profile > findBaseDN: begins > findBaseDN: Stopping ldap > findBaseDN: calling __ns_ldap_default_config() > found 2 namingcontexts > findBaseDN: __ns_ldap_list(NULL, > "(&(objectclass=nisDomainObject)(nisdomain=composers.foo.com))" > rootDN[0] dc=foo,dc=com > found baseDN nisdomain=composers.foo.com,dc=foo,dc=com > for domain composers.foo.com > The download of the profile failed. > Could not read the profile 'default'. > Perhaps it does not exist or you don't have sufficient > rights to read it. > > However, from the FDS server itself, ldapsearch -x > shows this: (snipped) > > # default, profile, foo.com > dn: cn=default,ou=profile,dc=foo,dc=com > defaultSearchBase: dc=foo,dc=com > authenticationMethod: simple > followReferrals: TRUE > bindTimeLimit: 2 > profileTTL: 43200 > searchTimeLimit: 30 > objectClass: top > objectClass: DUAConfigProfile > defaultServerList: cnyitlin02.composers.foo.com > credentialLevel: proxy > cn: default > defaultSearchScope: one Could you do a "ldapclient -u", stop ldapcachemgr/nscd, remove everything from /var/ldap. Then try the first ldapsearch test queuery but this time authenticating as proxyagent. What value has "nisdomain" in the FDS tree? Try the ldapclient -v -P... line again.