On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:01:03PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Sunday 10 February 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Is this an upgrade from a previous version of slapd where you had SASL auth > > working? Or is this a new install?
> No. It is a fresh install. I have never used slapd before. > Does slapd work without SASL ? Yes, if you use simple binds. > > If you haven't configured SASL, then you should not be doing SASL binds to > > the LDAP server, you should be doing simple binds instead. If you have > > configured SASL and had it working before, we would need to know the > > details of your configuration (starting with the non-sensitive parts of > > /etc/ldap/slapd.conf) to try to reproduce this problem. But, AFAIK all > > SASL auth requires configuring the Cyrus SASL library to specify which > > mechanisms should be used and with what passwords. > Here's an output: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldapsearch -x -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)' > namingContexts > ldap_sasl_bind(SIMPLE): Can't contact LDAP server (-1) > This is what the manpage is saying for -x > -x Use simple authentication instead of SASL. Please capture the output of this command running with full debugging enabled (ldapsearch -x -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)' namingContexts -d16383) The above doesn't indicate a SASL error at all. The most obvious explanation for the above is that there's no ldap server running at the default URI configured in /etc/ldap/ldap.conf. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
