Hi Maurizio, I would use the " uid=admin,ou=Administrators,ou=TopologyManagement,o=NetscapeRoot" instead of "cn=Directory Manager". Here's the copy and pasted information from the Red Hat Directory Server Admin Guide. There are important differences between the Directory Administrator and the Directory Manager: * The administrator cannot create top level entries for a new suffix through an add operation. either adding an entry in the Directory Server Console or using ldapadd, a tool provided with OpenLDAP. Only the Directory Manager can add top-level entries by default. To allow other users to add top-level entries, create entries with the appropriate access control statements in an LDIF file, and perform an import or database initialization procedure using that LDIF file. * Password policies do apply to the administrator, but you can set a user-specific password policy for the administrator. * Size, time, and lookthrough limits apply to the administrator, but you can set different resource limits for this user. For more detail, follow below URL http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/install/8.0/Installation_Guide-Preparing_for_a_Directory_Server_Installation-Considerations.html#Installation_Guide-Preparing_for_a_Directory_Server_Installation-Directory_Manager - dc On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Maurizio Marini <maumar at cost.it> wrote: > When configuring sw that should authenticate ldap, they ask for ldap admin > and > password > I wonder which is the difference between: > uid=admin,ou=Administrators,ou=TopologyManagement,o=NetscapeRoot > and > cn=Directory Manager. > When shoud i use it ot the the other? who is "ldap admin"? > tia > -m > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20080502/ff5afafd/attachment.html