For those of you having 'decoding error' problems using SASL authentication with OpenLDAP 2.0.4, try this patch: http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/servers/slapd/bind.c.diff?r1=1.38.2.8&r2=1.38.2.9 This patch has been applied to OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2 (available via AnonCVS). Kurt