[Fedora-directory-users] slapd password

[Richard Megginson]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> I ma trying to install fedora-ds and am having some beginner problems.
> The installation was accomplished on a Fedora 5 system from an rpm
> download off of the fedora-ds site. I originally used a yum install but
> could not get anything to work so I did a yum remove before I did an rpm
> install.  The setup script seemed to work ok, and now I am trying to
> load a *.ldif file without success.  I do not have a gui on this machine
> so command line entry is necessary.
>
> The command I am using to enter the data is :
> ldapmodify -a -D cn=Directory Manager,dc=example,dc=com -W -f
> newdat.ldif
>
> The response I am getting is :
> ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method (-6)
>         additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available:
>
> I thought perhaps I memorized the password wrong, but could not find
> config file that the password is stored.
>   
Add "-x" after ldapmodify.  /usr/bin/ldapmodify (et. al.) are the 
openldap tools - they all require the -x argument after the command name 
in order to use simple auth - without -x, by default, they all attempt 
to use sasl auth.
> Sorry for the beginner question.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Greg Ennis
>
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