You would need to either do that, or put the necessary ldap bind, etc, info into openldap's ldap.conf (not to be confused with pam_ldap's ldap.conf).
- chris PS: it's a long weekend in the states, and a weekend everywhere else. You'll get more responses during the week, and if you include your relevant config info. Chris Jacobs, Systems Administrator Apollo Group | Apollo Marketing | Aptimus 2001 6th Ave Ste 3200 | Seattle, WA 98121 phone: 206.839-8245 | cell: 206.601.3256 | Fax: 208.441.9661 email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: openldap-technical <[email protected]> Sent: Sun Jan 16 19:58:51 2011 Subject: Re: No remote writes, only reads So there we are. I can in fact add users from a remote server but only if I add the IP. # ldapadd -D 'cn=admin,dc=mydomain,dc=com' -x -f newuser.ldif -W Enter LDAP Password: ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1) # ldapadd -D 'cn=admin,dc=mydomain,dc=com' -x -f newuser.ldif -W -h 192.168.1.250 Enter LDAP Password: adding new entry "uid=JohnB,ou=users,dc=mydomain,dc=com" This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system.
