Kat via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> My bad - I thought the link I shared would indicate that is the process
> I followed. However, here are more details:
> 
> ipa-server-4.5.4-10.el7_5.1.x86_64 on RHEL 7.5
> 
> Steps:
> 
> 1. Backup dse.ldif out of /etc/dirsrv/slapd-DOMAIN...
> 
> 2. ipactl stop
> 
> 3. vim dse.ldif and replace rootpw with newly hashed pw from pwdhash
> command
> 
> 4. ipactl start

It is amazing how many people fail to stop 389-ds before applying the
change and wonder why it doesn't work. This is why I asked for the exact
steps.

> I tried this on the first CA, and was unable to gain access to dirmgr.
> Tried it on secondary (replicas) and still no luck. So perhaps I am just
> not understanding that you can change Directory Manager PW by following
> 389-ds docs?

It depends on version. With older versions changing the password was
more complex.

What do you mean by no access to DM? What did you do to check this?

rob

> 
> thank you
> Kat
> 
> 
> On 5/21/18 10:49, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Kat via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>>> No suggestions at all?
>> https://www.freeipa.org/page/Howto/Change_Directory_Manager_Password
>>
>> If would help if you included the version and distro and more details on
>> how you tried to change the password.
>>
>> rob
>>
>>> :-(
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/16/18 09:08, Kat wrote:
>>>> Hi -
>>>>
>>>> Have a replica I did not install CA on. Want to add it. I had lost the
>>>> Directory Manager password, so I followed procedure to change it by
>>>> editing dse.ldif and replacing the rootpw, but no matter what I do I
>>>> keep getting:
>>>>
>>>> [root@ipa-rep2 ~]# ipa-ca-install
>>>> Directory Manager (existing master) password:
>>>>
>>>> Directory Manager password is invalid
>>>>
>>>> Scratching my head - has the procedure for changing the Dir Mgr
>>>> password changed? I used:
>>>>
>>>> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/docs/389ds/howto/howto-resetdirmgrpassword.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>> -K
>>>>
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