https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9834

Issue ID: 9834 Summary: Can not find admin user after setup openldap on debian Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.4.57 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: needs_review Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: slapd Assignee: bugs@openldap.org Reporter: sparktour@outlook.com Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 897 --> https://bugs.openldap.org/attachment.cgi?id=897&action=edit the screenshot of phpldapadmin dashboard (doesn't have any entry under base)

After install the openldap (slapd) from Debian package repository (using the version 2.4.57+dfsg-3~bpo10+1, database created by the dpkg configuration script provide by apt), the admin user (cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com) in could not be found either when performing ldapsearch or viewing the structure of the organisation in phpldapadmin / Apache directory studio.

result of ldapsearch: ------------ root@ldap:~# ldapsearch -x -b "dc=example,dc=com" # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <dc=example,dc=com> with scope subtree # filter: (objectclass=*) # requesting: ALL #

# example.com dn: dc=example,dc=com objectClass: top objectClass: dcObject objectClass: organization o: example.com dc: exmaple

# search result search: 2 result: 0 Success ------------

However, using ldapwhoami (ldapwhoami -vvv -h ldap.example.com -D cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com -x -w password) can return a successful result.

result of ldapwhoami: ------------ ldap_initialize( ldap://localhost ) dn:cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com Result: Success (0) ------------

A similar issue can be found here: https://github.com/osixia/docker-openldap/issues/555 on Github. According to the user in Github, this issue is first occurred in openldap 2.4.57 (https://github.com/osixia/docker-openldap/releases/tag/v1.5.0)