Anonymous access to ldap failing with error "Inappropriate authentication: Anonymous access is not allowed"

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Issue

  • Anonymous ldap search to cn=schema dn is failing with below error.
# ldapsearch -h 127.0.0.1 -b "cn=schema" -xLLL

Inappropriate authentication (48)
Additional information: Anonymous access is not allowed.
  • Http service error logs
[Sun Dec 03 03:41:11.256806 2023] [wsgi:error] [pid 3882503:tid 139791765510464] ipa: ERROR: Failed to pre-populate LDAP schema cache: uri=ldapi://%2Frun%2Fslapd-EXAMPLE-COM.socket: Unable to retrieve LDAP schema: Inappropriate authentication: Anonymous access is not allowed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Directory Server 11
  • Red Hat Directory Server 12
  • IPA 4.x

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