Re: OpenLDAP rootdn/rootpw

[Mitrana Cristian <cmitrana@xnet.ro>]

* Jeremy Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> [20-04-03 17:49]:
 
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> From: Jeremy Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: OpenLDAP rootdn/rootpw
> Date: 19 Apr 2003 16:17:49 -0500
> 
> I recently migrated a server to FreeBSD.  The server previously
> ran OpenLDAP on Linux, and I have installed OpenLDAP from the
> ports collection.  Before the migration, I backed up the OpenLDAP
> data files on the Linux box, and restored the files into
> /var/db/openldap-ldbm/ on the FreeBSD box.  I use LDAP Explorer
> (web-based LDAP client) running on a (physically separate) web
> server to connect to it.  I can connect to it from LDAP Explorer
> and browse it just fine, but if I try to modify any attributes,
> I am informed that my rootdn and/or rootpw are incorrect.  I
> expected everything to remain the same since I restored the
> files from backups, and explicitly set the rootdn and rootpw
> variables in the slapd.conf file.  Is there a way to reset
> the rootdn and/or rootpw using some command-line tools?
> 
> Thanks,
> j.
> 

man slappasswd.

mitu