Can’t login in my Open Directory server÷ boo !

[guillaumegete]

Hi there,

Following Joel’s article “Troubleshooting Open Directory with Panther Server”, I tried to apply the method to be able to access again my LDAP stuff on my Mac OS X Server.

However, I need the root access to do it, and obviously, LDAP does not want me to use my previous password. I tried to reinitialize it by modifying /etc/open_ldap/slapd_macosxserver.conf, and changed line :

rootpw {SH5}blahblasdfsdsf

by

rootpw {CLEARTEXT}mypassword

However, when relaunching the server, mypassword is not recognized… And so I can’t modify any info in my LDAP server.

Any suggestions please ? Thanks for your help 🙂

[guillaumegete]

Sorry, I realise I was not really good in my explanation :-/ So let’s do it again 🙂

So, I can login to the server as root. Then I can log in Workgroup Manager on the local Netinfo database, using any admin account login and password… So far, so good.

But if I choose to check the LDAP/127.0.0.1 settings in WM (using the local menu), I can access the informations and see what is in the database (and they work fine for the other users, by the way). BUT I can’t unlock the settings when I click on the padlock : it asks for an admin login and password, and any login and password I try to enter is rejected :-/

So, I thought that your article would help. But when I type :

ldapmodify -x -D “uid=root,cn=users,dc=example,dc=com” -W -f goodinfo.ldif

I get this :

Enter LDAP Password:

Then if I type my root password, I get the message :

ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)

So, it seems it is really the LDAP password I should use, but it is not accepted. This is why I tried to replace rootpw {SH5}blahblasdfsdsf by rootpw {CLEARTEXT}mypassword in /etc/open_ldap/slapd_macosxserver.conf.

So it lets me scratching my head… Any suggestion ? Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase 😀

(Note that this happens on a non-critical server : I could erase it and go back from scratch. However, I am wondering so much about this issue that I would like to know a bit more about this…)

[guillaumegete]

Well, in fact, I finally managed to find the good password… So I can make modifications again. Pfeeeeeeeeew 🙂

However, a general solution for the issue of “root” LDAP account would be nice, I guess.

Thanks for your time anyway 🙂

[Anonymous]

How did you get the password to work? Could you provide some details?

[guillaumegete]

Anonymous wrote:

How did you get the password to work? Could you provide some details?

Well, sadly not, as I just used a password I thought I could have used… and it worked. So no magic here, just some memory and luck…

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