Hi Dave,

On 4/6/21 7:24 PM, David Filip wrote:
> Yes, you are probably right ... after I use Extended Operations => Modify 
> Password ..., which defines an encryption hash, I can then use the Password 
> Editor.
> 
> Which just goes to prove that someone like you with years of experience with 
> ApacheDS, can make better guesses than someone like me, with maybe two hours 
> of experience with the product ... ;-)

It still a bug, so please feel free to create a Jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/DIRSERVER

> Just two more notes:
> 
> Root vs. Non-Root under Linux
> 
> I tried creating a non-root user -- given that the default ports in the 
> configuration are > 1024, specifically 10389 and 10636 -- but even after 
> changing (I think!) all of the file ownerships and permissions (this is on 
> Linux), I ran into some odd problems with files seeming be created with root 
> permissions, and being unaccessible under the non-root user.
> 
> It is possible that something kicked-off or started while I was in the middle 
> of making the ownership changes -- although I didn't think so -- but was 
> wonder if running ApacheDS is fully "supported" running under a non-root user 
> (e.g., Linux)?  Or is running under root preferred?  Or should it really not 
> matter?
> 
> Nonetheless, I changed back to root, mostly because I like using port 389 for 
> LDAP, but might want to change back to non-root in the future, since running 
> services as root is usually not a good idea.

Do you use the tar.gz or zip archive? That works, I just unzipped it (as
my normal user so all files are owned by me) and started it.

For the bin/deb/rpm packages installers I don't know.

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