Re: adding a user

[matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>]

> command as root to see if that works). I get the following error either way:
> SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
> ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: internal (implementation specific) error
> (80) additional info: SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in database.
>

> What am i missing?

You're probably missing a -x to specify a simple bind.

>
> >
> > Also- make sure you don't have ldapadd aliased anywhere.
> i don't. I got it to work before but since this is such a convoluted
> piece of software and I don't use it enough I forgot how I got it to
> work before. I'm working on creating an application that will allow me
> to avoid having to remember the cryptic syntax.
>

Yes, most server software is complicated.  Isn't it cool that you can
let this one run long enough without intervention that you forget
about it?  ;)

See the man page LDAP.CONF(5) on how to set defaults for ldapsearch. 
That way you can avoid all your typing without even shell scripting. 
But if you want to make a command, here's one for free:

#!/bin/sh
ldapsearch -D dn -b base -x -W -L $1

_Matt