Hi, Our organization has an AD server running which requires you to bind to it first before querying the server. For example commands like ldapsearch -x -h "some ip" "(cn=abcd)" -b "some base" would fail with LdapErr: DSID-0C090627, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection. but commands like ldapsearch -x -h "some ip" "(cn=abcd)" -b "some base" -D "some user dn" -W would work on entering correct password. How can we replicate this behavior with the fedora directory server ? Regards, Shivraj