openldap-2.1.16 on redhat 8 issues

[Jonathan Vanasco <jvanasco@mastersofbranding.com>]

I'm trying to get openldap-2.1.16 on my redhat8 machine.  Its not 
working well.

I got it built... but it kept giving me GSSAPI errors for an sasl bind 
when I tried to invoke ldappasswd or most other commands.  This was 
kind of troubling, because I had the slapd.conf specifying TLS -- not 
sasl.

So, whatever, I uninstalled a bunch of cyrus sasl packages that were on 
the machine.  Essentially all that I could without breaking lots of 
dependancies.  Now i get :
	# SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
	# Please enter your password:
	ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Internal (implementation specific) error 
(80)
	        additional info: SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in 
database

I'm a bit lost, and frustrated.  Its been 2 days of me building from 
source and running into brick walls.

Has anyone been able to get this running?  I'd love some pointers.