Hi, first of all, I'm newbie in LDAP too, but I think that under root you're using different type of authentication. Maybe you can post your commands, so we can see what are you actually doing.
>From my experience: if you use parameters "-Y EXTERNAL" you're authenticate as >actual Linux user. But when you're using "-D "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" " >you'll authenticate as LDAP's "admin" user. If you want to add new database >(to cn=config), you will probably need Linux root user. But when you want to >modify database, you need LDAP's admin user (at least this is the way I >understand LDAP). Best regards Martin Stejskal ________________________________ From: openldap-technical <[email protected]> on behalf of vvv jjj <[email protected]> Sent: 19 January 2017 05:37:34 To: [email protected] Subject: Permission issue for normal user with ldap_add Hi OpenLDAP team, I'm new to openLDAP. So this could be a trivial question, please let me know if I missed anything. I'm trying to add entries to "dc=example,dc=com" using ldap_add. It is working fine for super user (root), but we are getting permission error for normal user (non root). I'm able to update with ldap_modify for normal user. Could you please let me know how can we give permissions to any specific user to add entries using ldap_add. Thanks in advance. Regards J.Visu
