On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 11:15 -0600, Richard Megginson wrote: > 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 > > > > -- Richard, That helped, but now I am getting : ldap_bind: No such object (32) matched DN: dc=domain,dc=com I am not certain that I have the correct password is there a way to get to the password or should I rerun the setup script? I did try to use openldap but could not get it to work remotely, I do not have it running. Are their tools peculiar to fedora-ds that I should be using to load data? Thanks for your help!!! Greg