--On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 2:34 PM +0000 JC lovecraftesque@yahoo.com wrote:

Thanks. I now know. Perhaps OpenLDAP might return a somewhat less misleading error diagnostic in situations like this?

It is not misleading, it is as per RFC. The issue is more, being new to LDAP, you're not aware of what the message means. ;) Also, please keep replies on the -technical list.

More specifically, invalid credentials simply means some part of the credentials supplied is incorrect. In your case it was the DN.

Regards, Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: http://www.symas.com