Re: What DN (user name) I should use for connecting to ldap server?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Monday, June 21, 2010 11:42 PM +1000 sam <sam@ip6.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have ldap server started up in freebsd.
> I tried to test it with Apache Directory Studio.
> When I open a New Connection in the Studio, it asks for User name.
> I entered "root" as user name, then go for the connection...
>
> However I got following error message in ldap log file:
>
>
> Jun 21 23:14:51 hometest slapd[2417]: conn=1005 fd=11 ACCEPT from
> IP=192.168.1.100:57297 (IP=192.168.1.20:389)
> Jun 21 23:14:51 hometest slapd[2417]: conn=1005 op=0 do_bind: invalid dn
> (root)

"root" is not a valid dn.  You should use a dn as you have configured in 
your configuration file/db, or as you have created in your database.  Such 
as:

cn=config
uid=joe,dc=whatever,dc=com

etc.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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