<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3243" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Our organization has an AD server running which requires you to bind to it first before querying the server. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2>For example commands like</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008> <FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>ldapsearch -x -h "some ip" "(cn=abcd)" -b "some base" </EM>would fail with <EM>LdapErr: DSID-0C090627, comment: In order to perform this </EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection.</EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2>but commands like</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008> <FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>ldapsearch -x -h "some ip" "(cn=abcd)" -b "some base" -D "some user dn" -W</EM> would work on entering correct password.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2>How can we replicate this behavior with the fedora directory server ?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=894135910-24012008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shivraj</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>