Bug#977123: ldapadd: simple authentication works without setting of -x

Ryan Tandy ryan at nardis.ca
Fri Dec 11 17:03:20 GMT 2020


Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible

Good morning,

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 08:20:54AM +0100, David Damago wrote:
>ldapadd used without -x and without SASL of course performs
>a simple bind and add entries to the OpenLDAP server. Other
>LDAP clients, e.g. ldapsearch, ldapwhoami, .. still
>require -x for simple authentication.

I can't reproduce this. In a clean buster chroot, ldapadd without -x 
does start SASL authentication for me:

# dpkg-query -W ldap-utils slapd
ldap-utils	2.4.47+dfsg-3+deb10u4
slapd	2.4.47+dfsg-3+deb10u4
# ldapadd
SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
Please enter your password:

Am I missing another ingredient?



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