Are you using the utilities from FDS, or the OpenLDAP ones? If the ones from OpenLDAP, you can try adding "-x" to the command line to use simple authentication. > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-directory-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Jim Patterson > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 6:42 PM > To: Fedora Directory server users > Subject: command line not working > > newbie > I was able to set up directory server and import the > Example.ldif into the server (using console). But whenever I > try and do a command line modify,delete or search I get the > following errors. > My server was set up to run on port 42645 and I also tried port 389. > This is my second install the first was typical and the > second was express. I must have missed something in the > documentation. > > [root@station100 ldif]# ldapdelete -D "cn=Directory Manager, > dc=example,dc=com"-wpassword -h station100 -p 42645 "cn=Ted > Morris,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com" > ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Local error (-2) > [root@station100 ldif]# ldapdelete -D "cn=Directory Manager, > dc=example,dc=com"-wpassword -h station100 -p 389 "cn=Ted > Morris,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com" > SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started > ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method (-6) > additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: > > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users