Re: Error: ldap_simple_bind_s...failed: Invalid credentials

Pantejo Barbara-XJC864 wrote:

This problem has been fixed. The solution, for anyone in the future, who has this same issue, is to place clear text passwords in the master LDAP slapd.conf file within the replica credentials line.

Well, one could even learn a more general concept from that: If a client (that's what the replica is) must authenticate it has to *know* a secret credential in cleartext, no matter if the *server* stores the credential as hash (e.g. userPassword: {SSHA}...) xor whether it gets *transferred* as hash (e.g. SASL bind DIGEST-MD5).

So if it's a client process which has to automatically start you have to store the clear-text credential in some configuration file.

Ciao, Michael.