On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:25:55PM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 21:19 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I've spent today trying to get openldap running under Fedora 7. > > The documentation is unbelievably bad - > > even worse than sendmail, the previous winner. > > It is almost as incomprehensible as my VHS manual in Japanese. It's like most man pages, bad for starting out, great for reference. > > Anyway, I've got to the stage where I'm trying to install > > an address book with ldapadd with > > [root@alfred tim]# > > ldapadd -x -D 'cn=Manager,dc=alfred,dc=gayleard,dc=com' -W -f /etc/openldap/addressbook.ldif > > Enter LDAP Password: > > and I get the error > > ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49) You are trying to bind as "cn=Manager,dc=alfred,dc=gayleard,dc=com" and it did not like the password you gave. > > which I find slightly baffling since ldapsearch seems to work ok: > > > > [root@alfred tim]# ldapsearch -x -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)' namingContexts That is an anonymous bind. OK for reading. > > So what sort of credentials do they want? > ---- > whatever the password that is set for the bind address (-D > 'cn=Manager,dc=alfred,dc=galeard,dc=com) And that password is usually set in the /etc/openldap/slapd.conf configuration file. You should see the lines: rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=alfred,dc=gayleard,dc=com" rootpw secret If you don't want a plaintext password in the config file, you can generate a password hash with the slappasswd command: # slappasswd New password: Re-enter new password: {SSHA}94+CSjT15Xt0sCu3EoTpQf8c9ZKkS6px Then cut that output and replace it in the rootpw line of /etc/openldap/slapd.conf rootpw {SSHA}94+CSjT15Xt0sCu3EoTpQf8c9ZKkS6px > Recommendation... > > LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter > > simplifies everything +1 Great book. -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia ngaywood@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 3337 http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list