Thanks. All better now. LOL!

Steve Francis

Technical Advisor - zSeries, zLinux, z/OS

IHG

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From: Sérgio Afonso [mailto:safonso@reit.up.pt]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 9:30 AM
To: Francis, Steve (IHG)
Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: forgotten rootdn psw

Hello Steve,

I guess you could issue another LDAP master password with:

$ slappasswd

And substitute that hash in "rootpw" on /etc/openldap/slapd.conf and restart your LDAP server.

I think you are good to go that way.

Cheers,
Sérgio

On 04/06/2010 01:06 PM, Francis, Steve (IHG) wrote:

ok...So i'm an ID10T!! LOL. But seriously, I setup an OpenLdap server and migrated /etc/passwd to it, and all is well: however, I did that months ago, and you guessed it, somehow I'm having a "senior" moment, and can't remember the psw for the rootdn, so that I can add another user to the Ldap server. I'm sure there is probably a way to decode the "hashed/encrypted" password. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to have to delete everything and start again, but if that's what I must do, then so be it.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Francis

Technical Advisor - zSeries, zLinux, z/OS

IHG

Alpharetta Data Center

Ph: 770-442-7157

Cell: 770-906-3122

IM: francisihg