"Temporary authentication failure" ? Cant connect with ldap user

[Mihai Badici]

On Tuesday 24 February 2015 10:23:14 David Scheele wrote:
> The ldap-utils were already installed.
> I did the ldapsearch you gave me, but after inputting my admin password it
> gives me
> *ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)*
> I logged into the ldap server with my admin credentials (which worked fine)
> and changed my password to '12345', Trying that, still *Invalid credentials*
> .
> 
> 1.) I tried that already. The error switches to syntax error then.
> 2.) Not really. An upper case letter and a number + various lowercase
> letters. Not very exotic.
> 
> Is the pass_filter neccessary? I just wanted to make the installation as
> basic as possible, to not get any unwanted errors.
> 
> Best,
> David
> 
You can compare the querry performed by ldapsearch versus the one performed by 
your ldap frontend by looking in openldap log ( /var/log/debug ? ) Should be 
the dn pf the admin user, maybe isn't cn=admin but cn=admin,dc=mydomain .