Re: Authentication Issue

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Friday, March 12, 2010 7:24 AM +0000 Richard Golding 
<richard.golding@zen.co.uk> wrote:

> I am trying to setup a server and running into an issue whereby I cannot
> authenticate using the rootdn. (I am new to OPENLDAP so apologies in
> advance if this is a basic question)
>
> The problem is I get "Invalid Credentials" returned
>
>
> Here is an excerpt from my Slapd.conf file
>
> database bdb
> suffix "dc=my-domain,dc=com"
> checkpoint 1024 15
> rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=my-domain,dc=com"
> # Cleartext passwords, especially for the rootdn, should
> # be avoided. See slappasswd(8) and slapd.conf(5) for details.
> # Use of strong authentication encouraged.
> rootpw secret
> rootpw {crypt}ijFYNcSNctBYg

Don't use crypt passwords.  Use the slappasswd command to generate yourself 
a nice SSHA hash.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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