login with NSL LDAP client fails

  • 3046869
  • 02-Apr-2007
  • 26-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell SecureLogin
NSL v 3.51
NSL v 6.x
SecureLogin installed in LDAP mode

no error if user re-enters name using ldap syntax: cn=test, o=whatever

Situation

login with NSL LDAP client fails
LDAP error 34 (illegal name) on user login.
LDAP error 17 (undefined type) when attempting to set preferences in SLManager

Resolution

Re-running the NSL LDAP schema extension resolved the problem in this case. Run ldapschema.exe from the ...\SecureLogin\Tools directory.
In another case re-running ldapschema.exe still did not create the ldap mappings, but manually creating the ldap mappings resolved the issue.

Steps to manually create the ldap mapp