Mention binddn in LDAP credentials error message

* net/ldap.el (ldap-search-internal): Mention binddn in invalid
credentials error message.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index e602c1ffafb..7593ad66bfe 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2014-11-13  Thomas Fitzsimmons  <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>
 
+        * net/ldap.el (ldap-search-internal): Mention binddn in invalid
+        credentials error message.
+
+2014-11-13  Thomas Fitzsimmons  <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>
+
         * net/ldap.el (ldap-password-read): Validate password before
         caching it.
         (ldap-search-internal): Handle ldapsearch error conditions.
diff --git a/lisp/net/ldap.el b/lisp/net/ldap.el
index dfa66f15008..fb425b33dfd 100644
--- a/lisp/net/ldap.el
+++ b/lisp/net/ldap.el
@@ -667,7 +667,8 @@ an alist of attribute/value pairs."
                 ;; Handle invalid credentials exit status specially
                 ;; for ldap-password-read.
                 (if (eq status 49)
-                    (error "Incorrect LDAP password")
+                    (error (concat "Incorrect LDAP password or"
+                                   " bind distinguished name (binddn)"))
                   (error "Failed ldapsearch invocation: %s \"%s\""
                          ldap-ldapsearch-prog
                          (mapconcat 'identity proc-args "\" \""))))))