[Samba] Noob having troubles with slapd-populate authentication

[Chris Weiss]

I take it back, the RPMs didnt fix anything. Now it just fails silently.

Chris Weiss wrote:

> Not really sure what version it was - it was part of the Fedora 
> install, apparently and sat in 
> /usr/share/doc/samba-3.0.10/LDAP/smbldap-tools/.
>
> In any case, I found the solution to my problem - apparenly I did not 
> have the authentication options in /etc/ldap.conf set up (was confused 
> by the presence of /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/openldap/ldap.conf).
>
> Additionally, I needed to install RPMs for the following:
>
> perl-Crypt-SmbHash-0.02-8.i386
> smbldap-tools-0.8.8-1.noarch.rpm
> perl-Authen-SASL-2.08-1.1.fc3.rf.noarch.rpm 
> perl-IO-Socket-SSL-0.96-1.1.fc3.rf.noarch.rpm
> Now things seem to work fine....
>
> John H Terpstra wrote:
>
>> 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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