Why ldap user on ldap client must have root ldap password in his config?

Question

My Ldap conf has permiss for client user Acl to see ,modif auth his attr so why I need to have on clienta PC root pass or other specjal account to bind like binddn ,rootdn?Can somebody explain this proces?.

Answer 1

You do not configure the root account (or any other highly privileged credentials) in LDAP clients.

You may need a regular user account (or rather a service account and not a person's username and password ) to functions as a BindDN when your LDAP directory server does not allow anonymous connections and/or anonymous operations.