noob on slapd with sasl errors

[Jens Cedlind]

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Kaiser, Hans wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently switching dapper to ldap authentication, but after only
> few steps I have to give up...
> 
> I have configured my slapd.conf like it is presented here:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_ldap_authentication
> 
> I got stuck with the first ldapsearch command.
> ldapsearch -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W
> Enter LDAP Password:
> SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
> ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Internal (implementation specific) error (80)
>         additional info: SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in database
> 
> and the log files tells me:
> SASL [conn=1] Failure: no secret in database
> conn=1 op=2 RESULT tag=97 err=80 text=SASL(-13): user not found: no
> secret in database
> 
> Hope someone can help me....
> I have no idea how sasl works and why it is needed here, or even more,
> how to configure it.
> 
> regards
> 

Try adding -x to your ldapsearch command to use simple authentication
instead of SASL, i.e;
ldapsearch -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" -W

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