On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 07:40 -0500, Steve Rigler wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:15 +0200, Felix Schwarz wrote: > > Eventually I found the problem: > > nscd did bind anonymously and slapd was configured to prevent access to ldap > > information by anonymous users. I thought that specifying "rootbinddn" and the > > correct password in ldap.secret would prevent that but obviously nscd needs > > "binddn" and "bindpw" in ldap.conf. > > > > fs > > > > nscd runs as user "nscd" so it's not going to use rootbinddn. ---- rootbinddn does not have anything to do with 'user root' 'User root' can bind as whatever is in /root/.ldaprc which by default is nothing which will default to whatever values are set as binddn/bindpw in /etc/ldap.conf rootbinddn is the all-powerful bind of LDAP Craig