Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-05 Thread Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: > On 2/5/12 6:58 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: >> >> Hi Howard!  I had the feeling you would reply to my post :) >> >> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Howard Chu  wrote: >>> >>> Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: Hi, >

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-05 Thread Emmanuel Lecharny
On 2/5/12 6:58 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: Hi Howard! I had the feeling you would reply to my post :) On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Howard Chu wrote: Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: Hi, On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Daniel Savardwrote: I would like to know how to

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-05 Thread Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
Hi Howard! I had the feeling you would reply to my post :) On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Howard Chu wrote: > Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Daniel Savard  wrote: >>> >>> I would like to know how to reset the rootpw in OpenLDAP 2.4? >>> >>>

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-05 Thread Michael Ströder
Howard Chu wrote: The first thing I would have done would be slapcat -n0 to see what all of the existing rootpw's were. They would all be base64 encoded; decode them to see if any of them are plaintext. If so, then the problem is already solved - you have the password. And what to do if the pas

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-04 Thread Howard Chu
Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: Hi, On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Daniel Savard wrote: I would like to know how to reset the rootpw in OpenLDAP 2.4? Do I need to recreate over the entire configuration database and the database itself or there is a trick? Risking to be burned by the c

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-04 Thread Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
Hi, On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Daniel Savard wrote: > I would like to know how to reset the rootpw in OpenLDAP 2.4? > > Do I need to recreate over the entire configuration database and the > database itself or there is a trick? Risking to be burned by the community, you could directly edit

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-04 Thread Axel Birndt
Am 04.02.2012 23:00, schrieb Daniel Savard: Le samedi 04 février 2012 à 12:21 +0100, Michael Ströder a écrit : You edit it. You can generate a value with slappasswd. Depending on the configuration method you edit the text file slapd.conf or use ldapmodify to alter the value of attribute 'olc

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-04 Thread Daniel Savard
Le samedi 04 février 2012 à 15:02 -0700, Chris Jacobs a écrit : > Only if you move the slapd.d dir will the slapd.conf file be used. > > Read the admin guide, it's worth it. > > - chris > > I did, however I am a little bit lost and need some extra guidance. So, bottom line, the slapd.conf is

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-04 Thread Chris Jacobs
Only if you move the slapd.d dir will the slapd.conf file be used. Read the admin guide, it's worth it. - chris - Original Message - From: openldap-technical-boun...@openldap.org To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Sent: Sat Feb 04 15:00:19 2012 Subject: Re: How do I reset r

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-04 Thread Daniel Savard
Le samedi 04 février 2012 à 12:21 +0100, Michael Ströder a écrit : > You edit it. You can generate a value with slappasswd. > > Depending on the configuration method you edit the text file slapd.conf or > use > ldapmodify to alter the value of attribute 'olcRootPW' in the accompanying > databa

Re: How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-04 Thread Michael Ströder
Daniel Savard wrote: I would like to know how to reset the rootpw in OpenLDAP 2.4? You edit it. You can generate a value with slappasswd. Depending on the configuration method you edit the text file slapd.conf or use ldapmodify to alter the value of attribute 'olcRootPW' in the accompanying

How do I reset rootdn password?

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Savard
I would like to know how to reset the rootpw in OpenLDAP 2.4? Do I need to recreate over the entire configuration database and the database itself or there is a trick? -- Daniel Savard