[Fedora-directory-users] Authentication problems

[Rich Megginson]

Per Qvindesland wrote:
> Hi List
>
> After having installed Directory Server with no problems and created a test
> user account I then go ahead to configure a client to test the
> authentication to my new directory server, sadly after a reboot I can't
> login with my new user account that I created, I have spent a few days
> reading up about what the problem may be but until now I have had very
> little joy.
>
> If I try ldapsearch -v then I get error message:
> SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
> Ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s:unknown authentication method (-6)
>    additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available:
>   
This is because the openldap ldapsearch client attempts SASL 
authentication by default.  You have to specify -x to make it use simple 
(username/password or anonymous) authentication.
> If i use ldapsearch -x then I get the output of a ldif file with all groups,
> users and domains available so there is apparently nothing rong with the
> communication, I truly belive that this is a security problem that sits
> somewhere but I have no idea.
>   
I don't think this is a security problem.
> Could anyone give me some pointers to how I could fix this problem?
>
> Regards
> Per Qvindesland
>
>
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