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basic usage of ldap
In advance, thank you for your time and patience on this matter.
I, as a proof of concept, installed all the packages necessary in RedHat 7.2
to get openldap2 up and running. In following the quickstart guide, I came
up with the following slapd.conf, where I simply addressed the things
mentioned in the quickstart guide step #8 and beyond.
# $OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/servers/slapd/slapd.conf,v 1.8.8.7 2001/09/27 20:00:31
kurt Exp $
#
# See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options.
# This file should NOT be world readable.
#
include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/redhat/rfc822-MailMember.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/redhat/autofs.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/redhat/kerberosobject.schema
# Define global ACLs to disable default read access.
# Do not enable referrals until AFTER you have a working directory
# service AND an understanding of referrals.
#referral ldap://root.openldap.org
#pidfile //var/run/slapd.pid
#argsfile //var/run/slapd.args
# Create a replication log in /var/lib/ldap for use by slurpd.
#replogfile /var/lib/ldap/master-slapd.replog
# Load dynamic backend modules:
# modulepath /usr/sbin/openldap
# moduleload back_ldap.la
# moduleload back_ldbm.la
# moduleload back_passwd.la
# moduleload back_shell.la
#
# The next two lines allow use of TLS for connections using a dummy test
# certificate, but you should generate a proper certificate by changing to
# /usr/share/ssl/certs, running "make slapd.pem", and fixing permissions on
# slapd.pem so that the ldap user or group can read it.
# TLSCertificateFile /usr/share/ssl/certs/slapd.pem
# TLSCertificateKeyFile /usr/share/ssl/certs/slapd.pem
#
# Sample Access Control
# Allow read access of root DSE
# Allow self write access
# Allow authenticated users read access
# Allow anonymous users to authenticate
#
#access to dn="" by * read
#access to *
# by self write
# by users read
# by anonymous auth
#
# if no access controls are present, the default is:
# Allow read by all
#
# rootdn can always write!
#######################################################################
# ldbm database definitions
#######################################################################
database ldbm
suffix "dc=infinity-computing,dc=com"
#suffix "o=My Organization Name,c=US"
rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=infinity-computing,dc=com"
#rootdn "cn=Manager,o=My Organization Name,c=US"
# 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}a_OOAbS2vPWRY
# The database directory MUST exist prior to running slapd AND
# should only be accessible by the slapd/tools. Mode 700 recommended.
directory /var/lib/ldap
# Indices to maintain
index objectClass,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber,memberUid eq
index cn,mail,surname,givenname eq,subinitial
# Replicas to which we should propagate changes
#replica host=ldap-1.example.com:389 tls=yes
# bindmethod=sasl saslmech=GSSAPI
# authcId=host/ldap-master.example.com@EXAMPLE.COM
step #9 returned results such as follows:
[root@redhat bkyoung]# ldapsearch -x -b '' -s base '(objectclass=*)'
namingContexts
version: 2
#
# filter: (objectclass=*)
# requesting: namingContexts
#
#
dn:
namingContexts: dc=infinity-computing,dc=com
# search result
search: 2
result: 0 Success
# numResponses: 2
# numEntries: 1
in step #10 I created the following example.ldif, taking care to only edit
the applicable parts from those provided in the example LDIF file in that
step of the quickstart:
dn: dc=infinity-computing,dc=com
objectclass: dcObject
objectclass: organization
o: Infinity Computing
dc: infinity-computing
dn: cn=Manager,dc=infinity-computing,dc=com
objectclass: organizationalRole
cn: Manager
AND HERE'S WHERE MY TROUBLE IS ...
[root@redhat bkyoung]# ldapadd -x -D
"cn=Manager,dc=infinity-computing,dc=com" -W -f example.ldif
Enter LDAP Password: {here I type secret, and i get ... }
ldap_bind: Invalid credentials
I'm lost. It is obvious to me that I am missing something extremely simple;
I have no idea what the mechanics of adding crypted passwords to the
slapd.conf file is, or even plain text passwords. I just want to get
SOMETHING to work, and then I'll fuss about the finer points. The man pages
and the HOWTO are not very clear about passwords. I tried using slappasswd
... but it's unclear to me whether this generates a crypted password to
paste into the slapd.conf, or if it set the passwd. At any rate, I have had
no success getting past this point, and that's very frustrating. Could
someone coach me through this part of the set up? Again, thank you in
advance.
Brandon