Hi, all,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m using Ubuntu 10.04 and LDAP 2.4.23. I&#39;m having difficulty with the basic binding.</div><div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t want to allow anonymous ldapsearch on the LDAP server so I specify a dn and password for the bind. If I use the following parameters for ldapsearch like</div>
<div><br></div><div>         ldapsearch -b &quot;dc=ucsd,dc=edu&quot; -D &quot;cn=admin,dc=ucsd,dc=edu&quot; -w 1234</div><div><br></div><div>This works quite fine. Then, I write the parameters into ldap.conf as follows:</div>
<div><br></div><div>-----------------ldap.conf-----------------------</div><div><div>BASE    dc=ucsd,dc=edu</div><div>BINDDN  cn=admin,dc=ucsd,dc=edu</div><div>BINDPW  12345</div></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then only BASE has effect. According to the ldap.conf manual, BINDDN is a &quot;user-only&quot; attribute and needs to go in ~/.ldaprc; it doesn&#39;t mention BINDPW at all.</div><div><br></div><div>But searching on the web, I found several cases that used &quot;binddn&quot; and &quot;bindpw&quot; in ldap.conf and worked successfully. So I&#39;m quite confused for these two directives.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Could anyone explain a little bit to me on BINDDN and BINDPW?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot!!</div><div>Tianyin</div><div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial;font-size:small">Tianyin XU,<br>
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