tag=97 error in openLDAP

[Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@gmail.com>]

Hello,

 I recently had a "knowledgeable" friend work on my openldap server.
he made some
changes to the cofigs without backing them up and now users are unable
to authenticate against this openldap 2.4 server where previously they
could. I am running on FreeBSD 8.1. I am a student trying to learn and
be comfortable with openLDAP.

 when a user ssh's to any machine on the network that is configured to
listen to this ldap server now gets an error in the LDAP logs:


Oct 29 22:49:41 LBSD2 slapd[1085]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (uid) not indexed
Oct 29 22:49:41 LBSD2 slapd[1085]: conn=1001 op=7 SEARCH RESULT
tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text=
Oct 29 22:49:41 LBSD2 slapd[1085]: conn=1002 op=4 BIND
dn="uid=bluethundr,ou=summitnjops,ou=staff,dc=summitnjhome,dc=com"
method=128
Oct 29 22:49:41 LBSD2 slapd[1085]: conn=1002 op=4 RESULT tag=97 err=49 text=
Oct 29 22:49:41 LBSD2 slapd[1085]: conn=1002 op=5 BIND dn="" method=128
Oct 29 22:49:41 LBSD2 slapd[1085]: conn=1002 op=5 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text=


it looks like it's failing to bind:

 conn=1003 op=3 BIND dn="" method=128

 and I think this error may be key but I am unsure of it's meaning:

tag=97

my ldap.conf reads as so:


host ldap.summitnjhome.com
base dc=summitnjhome,dc=com
scope sub
pam_password exop
nss_base_passwd ou=staff,dc=summitnjhome,dc=com
nss_base_shadow ou=staff,dc=summitnjhome,dc=com
sudoers_base ou=sudoers,ou=Services,dc=summitnjhome,dc=com


And why would the uid not be indexed?

and this is the user id in LDAP:

[root@LBSD2:/home/bluethundr/txt/ldif]#cat bluethundr.ldif
dn: uid=bluethundr,ou=summitnjops,ou=staff,dc=summitnjhome,dc=com
uid: bluethundr
cn: Timothy P.
givenName: Timothy P.
sn:
mail: bluethundr@blah.com
mailRoutingAddress: bluethundr@mail.blah.com
mailHost: mail.blah.com
objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: top
userPassword: {CRYPT}secret
loginShell: /usr/local/bin/bash
uidNumber: 1001
gidNumber: 1002
homeDirectory: /home/bluethundr
gecos: Timothy P.



and these are my ACL's in slapd.conf:


access to *
            by read

access to attrs=userPassword by self write
                             by anonymous auth
access to * by self write
            by dn.children="ou=summitnjops,ou=staff,dc=summitnjhome,dc=com"
write
            by users read
            by anonymous auth

access to * by self write



I would certainly appreciate any help to get this working again!

thank you

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