[Wylug-help] LDAP setup on Centos 7

[David Morris]

I haven't got any experience with LDAP but I had a quick look at some
others with a similar thing - Do you have the password stored in the rootpw
field in slapd.conf and did you encrypt your password with slappasswd
before pasting into that field?

David Morris
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On 27 November 2015 at 15:33, Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk>
wrote:

> I am trying to get LDAP working on my mail server for both user
> authentication
> and addressbook purposes.
>
> I have tried the tutorials on both
>
> http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=openldap&f=1
>
> and
>
>
> http://albanianwizard.org/ubuntu-10-0-4-lucid-lynx-ldap-configuration-the-working-how-to.albanianwizard
>
> (The second one is for Ubuntu, but claimed to be a complete and working
> demo)
>
> However, when I try to last part of each of these tutorials I get the
> following.
>
> ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,dc=ringways,dc=com -W -f /tmp/dit.ldif
> Enter LDAP Password:
> ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
>
> Note: in the server-world one I tried using "dc=ringways,dc=com" as well as
> leaving it as "dc=server,dc=world"  but it didn't seem to make any
> difference.
>
> After each attempt I reset  everything using the following script.
>
> [root at ollie2 ~]# cat reset_ldap.sh
> #!/bin/bash -x
>
> systemctl stop slapd
> rpm -e openldap-servers openldap-clients
> cd /var/lib
> rm -Rf ldap
> cd /etc/openldap/
> rm -Rf slapd.d/
> yum -y install openldap-servers openldap-clients
> cp /usr/share/openldap-servers/DB_CONFIG.example /var/lib/ldap/DB_CONFIG
> systemctl start slapd
> slaptest -F /etc/openldap/slapd.d
> [root at ollie2 ~]#
>
> Do I need to do anything else, as it would appear that there is something
> I'm
> missing.
>
>
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