[389-users] intro to 389 LDAP administration

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings 389 users,

I am a sysadmin that has never really used LDAP before. I have installed 389-ds and am a
little stuck as to how to start.

I am using Debian Buster...

389-ds:
  Installed: 1.4.0.21-1

From the site:

https://www.port389.org/docs/389ds/howto/howto-install-389.html

I see it recommends setting a .dsrc file to ease usage as the root user:

For local instance administration (on the server), you want to use settings like:

# cat ~/.dsrc
[localhost]
# Note that '/' is replaced to '%%2f'.
uri = ldapi://%%2fvar%%2frun%%2fslapd-localhost.socket
basedn = dc=example,dc=com
binddn = cn=Directory Manager

I don't have the socket file in my installation. I don't see any sockets owned by
the directory service:

# systemctl status dirsrv(a)gopher.service
● dirsrv(a)gopher.service - 389 Directory Server gopher.                                    
                                                                                          
                                                       
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dirsrv@.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)  
                                                                                          
                                                       
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2020-05-13 12:38:22 CDT; 2h 5min ago                
                                                                                          
                                                       
 Main PID: 12270 (ns-slapd)                                                               
                                                                                          
                                                       
   Status: "slapd started: Ready to process requests"                           
                                                                                          
                                                                 
    Tasks: 25 (limit: 4722)                                                               
                                                                                          
                                                       
   Memory: 19.2M                                                                          
                                                                                          
                                                       
   CGroup: /system.slice/system-dirsrv.slice/dirsrv(a)gopher.service                        
                                                                                          
                                                       
           └─12270 /usr/sbin/ns-slapd -D /etc/dirsrv/slapd-gopher -i
/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-gopher.pid

# tree /var/run/dirsrv
/var/run/dirsrv
├── slapd-gopher.pid
└── slapd-gopher.stats

The Debian package states to initialize the server to run the command: /usr/sbin/setup-ds

I don't know if that is a distribution agnostic program or not. The command did prompt
me for a password - which I entered.

When I run a command like dsidm or ldapmodify, the command prompts me for a password. I
enter the one that was prompted for with setup-ds, but I get:

SASL/SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication started
Please enter your password: 
ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Invalid credentials (49)

I guess I have two questions.

1. Should there be a socket somewhere owned by slapd for local communication?

2. What password should I enter for ldap<command> and dsidm?

Thanks for any pointer, advice, or help!

-m