Re: Salted passwords, further clarification please

["m h" <sesquile@gmail.com>]

On 1/26/07, Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
> m h wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to write a script to change the rootpw value in slapd.conf.
>
> Why? Parsing slapd.conf yourself is error-prone. If you really need the
> rootdn I would disable rootpw in slapd.conf and add a real entry for
> rootdn for which you can set the userPassword attribute.

Thanks to all for their responses.  I should use the existing tools to
update the password instead of parsing slapd.conf.  In order to do so,
I need to move the rootdn/rootpw into the database.  So my next
question is how to migrate the rootdn from slapd.conf into the
database?  Seems like a chicken and egg problem.

(Perhaps I'm not searching for the right terms on google.  The example
from 7.1 here [1], shows what appears to be a rootdn entry (dn:
cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com), but I can't set the userPasswd because
it is not a person.)


thanks

matt

1 - http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin22/dbtools.html