[Samba] Noob having troubles with slapd-populate authentication

[John H Terpstra]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 13:25, Chris Weiss wrote:
> I'm following the "The Linux Samba-OpenLDAP Howto" at
> http://samba.idealx.org/smbldap-howto.en.html and seem to have run into
> a problem...
>
> I'm to the point where I want to do the initial database population
> using smbldap-populate.pl, but when I run it, I'm getting:
>
> Using builtin directory structure
> adding new entry: dc=pirategames,dc=net
> failed to add entry: modifications require authentication at
> /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-populate.pl line 323, <GEN1> line 2.
> adding new entry: ou=_USERS_,dc=pirategames,dc=net
> failed to add entry: modifications require authentication at
> /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-populate.pl line 323, <GEN1> line 3.
> adding new entry: ou=_GROUPS_,dc=pirategames,dc=net
> failed to add entry: modifications require authentication at
> /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-populate.pl line 323, <GEN1> line 4.
> etc...

It would appear from the above that you have not configured your 
smbldap-tools. You will need to do this by executing the configure.pl script 
in the smbldap-tools directory.

Also, what version of smbldap-tools are you using? The .pl extension suggests 
you are using an old version. What version of Samba are you using? Please 
ensure that the two are matching versions.

Samba pre-3.0.6 can use smbldap-tools 0.8.2 or 0.8.4
Samba 3.0.6 or later requires smbldap-tools 0.8.5 or later.
Samba 3.0.11 is best used with smbldap-tools 0.8.7 or later.

 - John T.

>
> Something I thought was interesting is it's not even pointing out the
> SID, although I've got it and populated the smbldap.conf file and
> slapd.conf.pm (I'm using Fedora 3 and the smbldap-tools included seem to
> have a different default configuration, so I downloaded the RPM and did
> an update. This problem was occurring before and after the RPM update).
>
> Also, using smbldap-useradd.pl fails in the same manner.
> $ smbldap-useradd.pl -m testuser1
> failed to perform search; No such object at
> /usr/local/sbin///smbldap_tools.pm line 154, <DATA> line 283.
> failed to add entry: modifications require authentication at
> /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd.pl line 249, <DATA> line 283.
> No such object at /usr/local/sbin///smbldap_tools.pm line 178, <DATA>
> line 283.
>
> That message seems to indicate that I've not set the tools to choose
> authentication - I've gone over the permissions settings a few times and
> things should match up, can anyone help point me in the right direction
> to look as to why this might be failing?
>
>
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John H Terpstra
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