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I am trying to set up a standalone OpenLDAP on a RHEL box, but I am having a bit of trouble when trying to import users into the system.

If I enter the following command:

ldapadd -x -h localhost -D 'cn=Users,dc=internal,dc=priv' -W -f user.ldif

I get the following response:

Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)

While on the ldap server itself, the following appears:

slap_listener_activate(7):
>>> slap_listener(ldap:///)
connection_get(11): got connid=1
connection_read(11): checking for input on id=1
ber_get_next
ber_get_next: tag 0x30 len 45 contents:
ber_get_next
do_bind
ber_scanf fmt ({imt) ber:
ber_scanf fmt (m}) ber:
>>> dnPrettyNormal: <cn=Users,dc=internal,dc=priv>
<<< dnPrettyNormal: <cn=Users,dc=internal,dc=priv>, <cn=users,dc=internal,dc=priv>
do_bind: version=3 dn="cn=Users,dc=internal,dc=priv" method=128
send_ldap_result: conn=1 op=0 p=3
send_ldap_response: msgid=1 tag=97 err=49
ber_flush: 14 bytes to sd 11
connection_get(11): got connid=1
connection_read(11): checking for input on id=1
ber_get_next
ber_get_next on fd 11 failed errno=0 (Success)
connection_closing: readying conn=1 sd=11 for close
connection_close: conn=1 sd=11

I don't know LDAP that well - can anyone suggest a way forward?

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You should bind to your LDAP DB as the user who has credentials for modifying the database. One way is to use the manager user (rootdn somethinghere) defined in slapd.conf file.

So, if you have rootdn cn=TheMightyRootUser,ou=users,dc=internal,dc=priv in slapd.conf, provide that cn=TheMightyRootUser,ou=users,dc=internal,dc=priv as -D parameter for ldapadd.

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-D 'cn=Users,dc=internal,dc=priv' probably doesn't make sense. I guess that you want to add a user to ou=Users,dc=internal,dc=priv. ou denotes a subtree in LDAP. cn denotes a LDAP record.

-D should be followed by the entry that contains the LDAP admin account ('binddn').

cn=Users,etc. would be a weird name for the admin user.

May guess there's no cn=Users,etc. You should probably replace it with cn=admin,dc=internal,dc=priv (quotes are superfluous). You should edit the ldif file to reflect the fact that you want to place the entries in the ou=Users subtree

Another possibility is that your LDAP installation is using SASL, not simple authentication (denoted by -x)

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