[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#625494: ldap-utils: ldapadd not accepting the -y option

[Ryan Tandy]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible

Hello Dean,

I'm sorry no one has answered your report until now.

On 03/05/11 01:50 PM, Dean Rantala wrote:
> Passing the -y option (read password from file) causes failure to bind.
>
> Example:
>
> ldapadd -x -D 'cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com' -y /etc/pam_ldap.secret < input.ldif
>
> However, the following will work:
>
> ldapadd -x -D 'cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com' -w `cat /etc/pam_ldap.secret` < input.ldif
>
> Regarding my pam_ldap.secret file:
>
> 1) It is owned by root
> 2) It has permissions 600 set
> 3) It has no cr/lf at the end of the file (double checked with a hex editor)
> 4) I am running these commands as root

I can't reproduce this, based on your report:

# dpkg-query -W ldap-utils
ldap-utils	2.4.23-7.3
# od -c /etc/pam_ldap.secret
0000000   a   d   m   i   n   p   w
0000007
# ldapwhoami -x -D cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com -y /etc/pam_ldap.secret
dn:cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com

If you are still having this problem, can you provide any more 
information that would help with diagnosing it?

thanks,
Ryan