result: 32 No such object

Question

When I try to run

ldapsearch -x

I get an error

result: 32 No such object

I am using Ubuntu 14.04

Answer 1

• You have specified no host so it assumes localhost.
• You have specified no port, so it assumes 389.
• You have specified no bind DN so it assumes anonymous bind.
• You have specified no filter so it assumes objectclass=* (I think).

Any of those being bad assumptions could cause it to fail. Generally this should return at least the RootDSE of the local LDAP instance on 389.