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OpenLDAP Server configuration

When doing some operations, dealing with OpenLDAP can be a pain in the butt, as the community did retarded choice (like the slapd.d configuration mess, which makes a root creation a real pain in the arse).

Therefore, if you don't read carefully the following instructions, you might lose your time while pissing off.

Enable access to cn=config from PHPLdapAdmin

Hashing a password can be done with slappasswd.

Put the following content in a file (update_adminpass.ldif in our case).

dn: cn=config
changetype: modify

# cn=admin,cn=config is already set in a fresh slapd install

dn: olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config
changetype: modify
add: olcRootPW
olcRootPW: {SSHA}XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Then execute the following command in your shell:

# ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f update_adminpass.ldif