Dear experts,

I'm faced with a challenge that I seem to be unable to solve. I actually don't know if it's possible at all, so hopefully one of you can provide the answer.

I've setup a bunch of servers with SLES 11SP3. One of these is configured to be an LDAP server for central user and group management on all the others. The others are going to serve as SAP servers.

Now here's the annoying bit. I've configured all the users and groups for SAP in LDAP. I've verified that authentication works, users can change their password, etc. However, during installation SAP will run something like
on the existing LDAP user. This results in the following error:
On the command line I can bypass this by specifying the full DN using the -D option of usermod and then manually provding the password for the LDAP server. However, I cannot change the way the SAP installation program calls usermod.

So to cut a long story short, is there a way I pre-configure the DN / password so usermod will pick them up autmatically (e.g. without the -D option)? If so, that would really make my life easier.

Thanks.
Louis

If I understand well what you're trying to accomplish, I'd say that you can use alias to create a custom usermod command alias containing the -D ... argument
Regards

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Thanks, that may be worth a try, if I can somehow manage to get the password for the bind DN in the alias as well. I was already a bit afraid that it would come down to using an alias or building a wrapper around usermod.