sasl authentication problems

[Etienne Goyer]

Fred Blaise wrote:
> I am trying to fix the cyrus SASL authentication against openLDAP, I guess.
> 
> When I run that, here is the error:
> --------------------------------------------
> OX1:~# ldapsearch -D "cn=manager,dc=ilr,dc=lu" -h ldapsmb-pdc.ilr.lu
> -b "dc=ilr,dc=lu" "(uid=sp)"
> SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
> Please enter your password:
> ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Internal (implementation specific) error (80)
>        additional info: SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in database

You would need to use simple bind to authenticate using the userPassword 
attribute; try "ldapsearch -W -x -D..." instead.  If you worry about 
sending password cleartext, consider using SSL/TLS.