Re: beginner questions

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 05:04 PM 7/8/00 -0700, Gregg Carrier wrote:
>Hi all, some real basic questions for anyone who is feeling kind and generous.
>I've successfully installed OpenLdap on my Linux box and have gotten it
>running. The tests and everything worked, and now I'm trying to add my first
>data. I'm following the Wrox book _Proffessional Linux Deployment_ as my guide.

For the OpenLDAP Quick Start Guide.  http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=172


>Basically, no matter what I seem to do, I get an error message from ldapadd
>about my credentials being wrong. I tried to make the simplest ldif file I
>could and to properly configure slapd.conf, but I am completely new to this
>brave new world of directory servers. This is the simplest example I could come
>up with, but I still get the "bad credentials" error message. Any help
>straightening me out would be much appreciated.

Check the server logs, it will report details if appropriate configured.
You can run the server using -d 13 and will provide the details on
stdout (you likely will want to redirect to a file).

>At the command line I type:
>ldapadd -h localhost -p 389 -D "cn=root,dc=localhost" -W < ~/ldap/test.ldif
>
>password I enter is "secret" as configured in slapd.conf
>
>Here's test.ldif:
>dn: dc=localhost
>dc: localhost
>o: localhost
>objectclass: organization
>objectclass: dcObject
>
>dn: cn=root, dc=localhost
>cn: root
>sn: root
>objectclass: person
>
>And here's slapd.conf:
>#
># See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options.
># This file should NOT be world readable.
>#
>include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.at.conf
>include         /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.oc.conf
>schemacheck     off
>#referral       ldap://root.openldap.org/
>
>pidfile         /usr/local/var/slapd.pid
>argsfile        /usr/local/var/slapd.args
>
>#######################################################################
># ldbm database definitions
>#######################################################################
>
>database        ldbm
>suffix          "dc=localhost"
>#suffix         "o=My Organization Name, c=US"
>rootdn          "cn=root, dc=localhost"
>#rootdn         "cn=Manager, o=My Organization Name, c=US"
>rootpw          secret
># cleartext passwords, especially for the rootdn, should
># be avoid.  See slapd.conf(5) for details.
>directory       /usr/tmp