• You probably need to delete the userPassword attribute?  

That was a good idea actually, but sadly it didn’t work either. Same behavior as before. There is absolutely no indication it’s trying to perform remote authentication.

> It won't work as explicitly stated in the manual page: > "If the userPassword is present, authentication is performed locally" The userPassword field is absolutely empty. I don't know why it shows the ": " column there, but Apache Directory