Day: 30 June 2011

Newbie help : How to reset the Directory Manager’s password ?

Ludo4 Comments

We get this question quite often on IRC or mailling lists, from newbies who’ve installed OpenDJ (or OpenDS) for evaluation and forgot the Directory Manager’s password.

So here are the steps :

Make sure OpenDJ is stopped.

bin/stop-ds

Generate an encoded password for Directory Manager :

bin/encode-password -s SSHA512 -c AS3cur3PassW0rd
Encoded Password:  "{SSHA512}G/knE0xkyW2Af3+1MFy+yPYxchGgLuqog71R4njPJcs9t5NDAadqLxU7pxZjZkrDquQeb5aq7tum1ZFC3uE+r4Nmuil4S46A"

Copy the string within quotes (without the quotes), and edit the config/config.ldif file.

Go down to the following entry

dn: cn=Directory Manager,cn=Root DNs,cn=config

Replace the value of userPassword with the newly generated one.

dn: cn=Directory Manager,cn=Root DNs,cn=config
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: top
objectClass: ds-cfg-root-dn-user
userpassword: {SSHA512}G/knE0xkyW2Af3+1MFy+yPYxchGgLuqog71R4njPJcs9t5NDAadqLxU7pxZjZkrDquQeb5aq7tum1ZFC3uE+r4Nmuil4S46A
...

You can now restart the server and administer it.