Ldap Tools Such as ldapadd and ldapsearch Fail With 'Segmentation Fault' or 'ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s' Error (Doc ID 370259.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 03, 2019

Applies to:

Symptoms

One of the following symptoms may be exhibited:

• ldapsearch fails with:
  

  ldapsearch -h <OID_host> -p <OID_port> -X -s sub -b "cn=<PORTAL_GROUP>,cn=groups,<realm>" -s sub "objectclass=*" > exp_data/portal_groups.xml
  
  SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
  Please enter your password:
  Segmentation fault

• ldapsearch fails during step 2f of "11 Staging a Test Environment from a Production Environment" from the "Oracle Application Server Administrator's Guide, 10g Release 2 (10.1.2)", with:
  

  ldapsearch -L -h <OID_host> -p <OID_port> -D cn=orcladmin -w <pwd> -b "cn=PwdPolicyEntry, cn=common, cn=products, cn=OracleContext" -s base "objectclass=*" >> /tmp/pwdPolicy.ldif
  
  SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
  Please enter your realm:
  ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Invalid credentials

• (pre-11g) ldapsearch fails with:
  

  ERROR
  ldap_init( <HOSTNAME>, <PORT> )
  SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
  Please enter your password:
  Please enter your realm: <REALM_NAME>
  ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Invalid credentials

• (11g) ldapsearch fails with:
  

  ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method (-6)
      additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found

• From an RDBMS/Database system to a remore OID:

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Do not set any environment variables.
2. Conduct an ldapsearch. For example:  ldapsearch -h <OID_host> -p <OID_port> -v "cn=<cn name>"
3. The error is reproduced.

Cause

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