Dear list members,

I've been fighting with this problem on and off for 6 months now (you can see some of my queries if you Google for me...) and I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on. We are trying to get a Fedora 9 test box to authenticate against a Solaris 10 (SPARC) Sun Java Directory Server 6.3.1 box using anonymous binding and no SSL (we are on an internal, trusted network).

The JDS is running the NIS-to-LDAP script that Sun provide and can get information from the directory.

The Fedora box is running OpenLDAP client (version: openldap-clients-2.4.10-2.fc9.x86_64) and can't get any infromation from the directory after I switch to LDAP authentication from NIS authentication using system-config-authentication. NIS on the Fedora box works fine, so it isn't a network issue.

An extract from the access log on the server shows the following:

[01/Sep/2009:11:11:24 +0100] conn=2618 op=-1 msgId=-1 - fd=47 slot=47 LDAP connection from 172.28.1.172:46682 to 172.28.1.173 [01/Sep/2009:11:11:24 +0100] conn=2618 op=0 msgId=1 - BIND dn="" method=128 version=3 [01/Sep/2009:11:11:24 +0100] conn=2618 op=0 msgId=1 - RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 etime=0 dn="" [01/Sep/2009:11:11:24 +0100] conn=2618 op=1 msgId=2 - SRCH base="ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" scope=1 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=dmm))" attrs="uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass" [01/Sep/2009:11:11:24 +0100] conn=2618 op=1 msgId=2 - RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=0 etime=0 [01/Sep/2009:11:11:42 +0100] conn=2618 op=2 msgId=0 - RESULT err=80 tag=120 nentries=0 etime=0 [01/Sep/2009:11:11:42 +0100] conn=2618 op=-1 msgId=-1 - closing from 172.28.1.172:46682 - A1 - Client aborted connection - [01/Sep/2009:11:11:42 +0100] conn=2618 op=-1 msgId=-1 - closed. [01/Sep/2009:11:12:01 +0100] conn=4 op=4166 msgId=4167 - SRCH base="ou=hosts,dc=example=com" scope=1 filter="(&(objectClass=ipHost)(cn=lin05))" attrs=ALL [01/Sep/2009:11:12:01 +0100] conn=4 op=4166 msgId=4167 - SORT cn uid (1) [01/Sep/2009:11:12:01 +0100] conn=4 op=4166 msgId=4167 - VLV 0:49999:0:0 1:1 (0) [01/Sep/2009:11:12:01 +0100] conn=4 op=4166 msgId=4167 - RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=1 etime=0 notes=U [01/Sep/2009:11:12:25 +0100] conn=4 op=4167 msgId=4168 - SRCH base="automountkey=userf,automountmapname=auto_home,dc=example,dc=com" scope=0 filter="(objectClass=automount)" attrs=ALL [01/Sep/2009:11:12:25 +0100] conn=4 op=4167 msgId=4168 - RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=1 etime=0 [01/Sep/2009:11:12:28 +0100] conn=4 op=4168 msgId=4169 - SRCH base="ou=people,dc=example=com" scope=1 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uidNumber=254))" attrs=ALL [01/Sep/2009:11:12:28 +0100] conn=4 op=4168 msgId=4169 - SORT cn uid (1) [01/Sep/2009:11:12:28 +0100] conn=4 op=4168 msgId=4169 - VLV 0:49999:0:0 1:1 (0) [01/Sep/2009:11:12:28 +0100] conn=4 op=4168 msgId=4169 - RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=1 etime=0 notes=U

Connection 2618 is from the Fedora box and is unsuccessful. Connection 4 is the NIS-to-LDAP service on the Solaris box and is successful.

I have a number of questions, but, chiefly, am I actually using anonymous binding? If I need to set a bind DN, what should it be? Can I modify the search base so that it looks more like the search given in msgid 4168?

I'm sorry for the newbie questions (especially about a JDS server) but I am really tearing my hair out over this.

I hope some of you can help.

Thanks in advance.

Andy

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