Le 06/04/2010 14:06, Francis, Steve (IHG) a écrit :

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.

You can simply change the rootdn's password in the configuration file or configuration backend:

http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/slapdconfig.html#rootpw%20%3Cpassword%3E

Hope this helps Jonathan

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

If you're using slapd.conf then:

1. run slappasswd 2. replace the rootpw value in the slapd.conf file with the value given 3. restart slapd

If you're using slapd.d (cn=config):

1. run slappasswd 2. find the cn=config olcDatabase entry you wish to change the passwd for 3. update the value for olcRootPW with the one given in (1) 4. restart slapd

Adam

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Francis, Steve (IHG) Steve.Francis@ihg.comwrote:

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