Re: ldappasswd usage problems

[Bruce Carleton <bruce.carleton@dena.com>]

Cyrill,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll go that route for now. I'd still like
to figure out why I can't get ldappasswd to work though. It feels
broken in my case. Perhaps it's an Ubuntu packaging issue of some
kind. It worked fine in Ubuntu 10.

Best,

   --Bruce



On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Gremaud Cyrill <cyrill.gremaud@hefr.ch> wrote:
> Hello Bruce,
>
> I’m not an OpenLDAP expert but personally, when I want to set a password, I generate a good one with slappasswd.
>
> Using this tool, you will be prompted to enter a new password twice. The output of this tool will something like this : {SSHA}dsfjklihjfkajsdhfklasdjfasd
>
> Copy this value (with {SSHA} ) and create an ldif file just to set your password. For example if I want to set this password for olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config and for a specific root DN
>
> dn: olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config
> changetype: modify
> add: olcRootDN
> olcRootDN: cn=admin,cn=config
> -
> add: olcRootPW
> olcRootPW: {SSHA}dsfjklihjfkajsdhfklasdjfasd
>
> If you have already a RootDN, you can use it or if you just want to change it, replace the keyword “add” by “replace”.
>
> You can execute this ldif file using : ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f file.ldif
>
> To try to connect with this new password, you can try this command:
>
> ldapmodify -H ldap://yourserver.domain.cc -D “cn=admin,cn=config” -W
>
> You will be prompted to enter your password.
>
>
> Best Regards, cyrill gremaud
>
> On 10 Sep 2014, at 19:49, Bruce Carleton <bruce.carleton@dena.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm having problems setting passwords with ldappasswd. It keeps
>> failing with a usage message. I've tried a bunch of different
>> arrangements of the command line arguments, but it keeps giving me a
>> usage message. Here's an example:
>>
>> ldappasswd -s some_password \
>> -x -H ldapi:/// \
>> -D cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com -y secret.txt \
>> uid=some.user,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
>>
>> During one of my attempts I followed the order specified in the man
>> page. That didn't work either. I'm using the packaged (ldap-utils /
>> 2.4.28-1.1ubuntu4.4) ldappasswd on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS. The specific
>> ldappasswd version follows:
>>
>> $ ldappasswd -VV
>> ldappasswd: @(#) $OpenLDAP: ldappasswd  (Sep 19 2013 22:39:03) $
>> buildd@panlong:/build/buildd/openldap-2.4.28/debian/build/clients/tools
>> (LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20428)
>>
>> I'm feeling kind of stuck on this. I'm probably missing something
>> silly. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   --Bruce
>>
>