diff --git a/servers/slapd/sasl.c b/servers/slapd/sasl.c
index 509cf77692..ea35fc5ccf 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/sasl.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/sasl.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ slap_auxprop_lookup(
 
 	/* we don't know anything about this, ignore it */
 	if ( !conn ) {
-		rc == LDAP_SUCCESS;
+		rc = LDAP_SUCCESS;
 		goto done;
 	}