https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Inappropriate-authentication-error-while-configuring-LDAP/m-p/462156#M10744 <P>Hi All,</P> <P>I have recently LDAP connection on one of our HF, it's giving us the error <CODE>" ERROR ScopedLDAPConnection - strategy="my_LDAP" Error binding to LDAP. reason="Inappropriate authentication"</CODE> , I have used same configuration across other Splunk components, I am not seeing the error there, also I am able to login successfully using the LDAP on those instances. <BR />Could anyone suggest a solution please ? <a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1406">@woodcock</a> <a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/213957">@richgalloway</a></P> Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:00:37 GMT sanjeev543 2020-06-07T18:00:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Inappropriate-authentication-error-while-configuring-LDAP/m-p/462156#M10744 <P>Hi All,</P> <P>I have recently LDAP connection on one of our HF, it's giving us the error <CODE>" ERROR ScopedLDAPConnection - strategy="my_LDAP" Error binding to LDAP. reason="Inappropriate authentication"</CODE> , I have used same configuration across other Splunk components, I am not seeing the error there, also I am able to login successfully using the LDAP on those instances. <BR />Could anyone suggest a solution please ? <a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1406">@woodcock</a> <a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/213957">@richgalloway</a></P> Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:00:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Inappropriate-authentication-error-while-configuring-LDAP/m-p/462156#M10744 sanjeev543 2020-06-07T18:00:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Inappropriate-authentication-error-while-configuring-LDAP/m-p/462157#M10745 <P>If you copied your configuration files from one server to another and when you installed splunk you did not synchronize your <CODE>splunk.secret</CODE> file then the encrypted passwords are not decryptable. You will have to re-encrypt them.</P> Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:46:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Inappropriate-authentication-error-while-configuring-LDAP/m-p/462157#M10745 woodcock 2020-03-31T15:46:19Z