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) <[email protected]>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 > > -- Adam Leach BS Computer/Electrical Engineering West Virginia University Systems Administrator - Raytheon (304)677-4455
