On Tuesday, 30 March 2010 13:13:47 Matt Kassawara wrote: > Starting with Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), the slapd package changed from > creating a typical LDAP administrator account (i.e., username and > password) to using LDAPI and SASL EXTERNAL which automatically provides > LDAP administrator access via the system root account. As root, run > your LDAP utilities with "-Y external -H "ldapi:///" instead of "-x", > "-D", and "-W" where appropriate. For example, to search your LDAP > directory: > > ldapsearch -Y external -H "ldapi:///" -b dc=domain,dc=com
or stick the following in root's ~/.ldaprc: SASL_MECH EXTERNAL URI ldapi:/// Regards, Buchan
