Can’t login in my Open Directory server÷ boo !

Sorry, I realise I was not really good in my explanation :-/ So let’s do it again 🙂

So, I can login to the server as root. Then I can log in Workgroup Manager on the local Netinfo database, using any admin account login and password… So far, so good.

But if I choose to check the LDAP/127.0.0.1 settings in WM (using the local menu), I can access the informations and see what is in the database (and they work fine for the other users, by the way). BUT I can’t unlock the settings when I click on the padlock : it asks for an admin login and password, and any login and password I try to enter is rejected :-/

So, I thought that your article would help. But when I type :

ldapmodify -x -D “uid=root,cn=users,dc=example,dc=com” -W -f goodinfo.ldif

I get this :

Enter LDAP Password:

Then if I type my root password, I get the message :

ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)

So, it seems it is really the LDAP password I should use, but it is not accepted. This is why I tried to replace rootpw {SH5}blahblasdfsdsf by rootpw {CLEARTEXT}mypassword in /etc/open_ldap/slapd_macosxserver.conf.

So it lets me scratching my head… Any suggestion ? Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase 😀

(Note that this happens on a non-critical server : I could erase it and go back from scratch. However, I am wondering so much about this issue that I would like to know a bit more about this…)