[Kroupware] How to change the manager password?

[Dieter Kluenter]

Hi,

Dieter Kluenter <dieter at dkluenter.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Wim Bakker <wim at unetix.nl> writes:
>
>> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 19:42, Stephan Buys wrote:
>>> Hi Wim,
>>>
>>> You need to change the password of the manager object in Kolab.
>>> This can be done easily with something like GC or Ldapbrowser.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Stephan
>>>
>>
>> Hai,
>>
>> ldapbrowser doesn't exist , but ldapsearch does however
>> just as ldappasswd but that gives me the following error:
>> ---------------------
>> ldappasswd  -A manager
>> Old password:
>> Re-enter old password:
>> Result: Strong(er) authentication required (8)
>> Additional info: only authenticated users may change passwords
>
>
> ldappasswd -x -D "cn=manager,dc=<yourbasedn> -W -A cn=<full dn>
> same with ldapsearch or ldapadd.
> Just to give you an example for my personal entry
>
> ldappasswd -x -D "cn=manager,dc=orange,dc=l4b,dc=de" -W -A \n
> "cn=dieter at l4b.de,dc=orange,dc=l4b,dc=de" 
>
> -x is the flag for a simple bind
> -D is the flag for the bind DN
> -W is the flag for request for password
> -A is the flag for old password
>
> while cb=dieter at l4b.de is the entry which password hase to be changed.
>
>> So it seems I'm stuck with recompiling everything , deleting the
>> whole kolab tree and choosing a password that hopefully doesn't
>> generate errors in the scripts from kolab.
>
> if ldappasswd doesn't work for some reason, try to delete the entry
> with ldapdelete (same syntax), write a *.ldif file and add the entry
> with ldapadd. 

I'm sorry, I didn't read the subject of this thread properly. If you
only want to change the password of rootdn, just edit
/kolab/etc/kolab/kolab.conf

The ldapclients can only be used the manipulate entries, but rootdn
has no userPassword attribute, but only a rootpw entry in slapd.conf.

-Dieter

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