Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I ma trying to install fedora-ds and am having some beginner problems. > The installation was accomplished on a Fedora 5 system from an rpm > download off of the fedora-ds site. I originally used a yum install but > could not get anything to work so I did a yum remove before I did an rpm > install. The setup script seemed to work ok, and now I am trying to > load a *.ldif file without success. I do not have a gui on this machine > so command line entry is necessary. > > The command I am using to enter the data is : > ldapmodify -a -D cn=Directory Manager,dc=example,dc=com -W -f > newdat.ldif > > The response I am getting is : > ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method (-6) > additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: > > I thought perhaps I memorized the password wrong, but could not find > config file that the password is stored. > Add "-x" after ldapmodify. /usr/bin/ldapmodify (et. al.) are the openldap tools - they all require the -x argument after the command name in order to use simple auth - without -x, by default, they all attempt to use sasl auth. > Sorry for the beginner question. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Greg Ennis > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3245 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20070521/438909af/attachment.bin