Failed to get LDAP handle. Make sure you have LDAP server Certificates in /var/lib/novell-lum

  • Document ID:7001988
  • Creation Date:21-Nov-2008
  • Modified Date:27-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      eDirectory
      Open Enterprise Server

Environment

Novell eDirectory 8.8 for Linux
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2)

Situation

NAMCD won't start and reports following ERROR: "Failed to get LDAP handle. Make sure you have LDAP server Certificates in /var/lib/novell-lum"

Resolution

Edit the /etc/nam.conf configuration file and below the type-of-authentication=2 line add the following lines :-
  1. certificate-file-type=der
  2. ldap-ssl-port=636
After the lines mentioned in points 1 and 2 the following lines should appear :
  1. ldap-port=389
  2. support-alias-name=no
  3. support-outside-base-context=yes
  4. If the certificates do not appear in the /var/lib/novell-lum directory, use the "namconfig -k" command to export the certificates.