Re: ldappasswd usage problems

[Gremaud Cyrill <cyrill.gremaud@hefr.ch>]

Hi Bruce,

It’s strange. Firstly, I think you must upgrade your ubuntu server to the latest LTS to ensure maximum compatibility.

14.04.1 LTS is very great for me.  I really think that use 10 is dangerous. Do you have installed ldap-utils packet ?
If you use Ubuntu 10, I think you don’t have the last release of OpenLDAP too ? You use slaps.conf or cn=config ? 

Best regard cyrill

On 11 Sep 2014, at 20:30, Bruce Carleton <bruce.carleton@dena.com> wrote:

> 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
>>> 
>>