Re: Admin user has two passwords
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan White" <dwhite(a)olp.net>
To: "Wiebe Cazemier" <wiebe(a)halfgaar.net>
Cc: "Maarten Vanraes" <maarten.vanraes(a)gmail.com>,
openldap-technical(a)openldap.org
Sent: Friday, 28 December, 2012 3:47:58 PM
Subject: Re: Admin user has two passwords
There is no admin user per se. There is an authentication identity
that
you can specify in your configuration with rootdn/olcRootDN, along
with
it's password, rootpw/OlcRootPW.
Creating the same DN within your DIT may confuse things, and it is
not
necessary that it actually exist (unless you do not specify a
rootpw).
See:
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/access-control.html#Controlling%20roo...
and the slapd.conf/slapd-config man pages.
--
Dan White
Does that mean that the Ubuntu docs [1] give the wrong instructions? Because in its
backend.example.ldif, it makes:
olcRootDN: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
olcRootPW: secret
and then it loads an admin user with frontend.example.ldif:
# Admin user.
dn: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: simpleSecurityObject
objectClass: organizationalRole
cn: admin
description: LDAP administrator
userPassword: secret
So what I should do is remove the admin user, and set olcRootPW (but then to a value
generated with slappasswd to avoid plain text)?
[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/openldap-server.html