Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.0 Installation Manual page 82

Common Installation Problems
This error occurs when a machine is not correctly configured to use DNS naming.
The default fully qualified host and domain name presented during installation is
not correct. If you accept the defaults, you receive the LDAP authentication error.
To successfully install, you need to provide a fully qualified domain name that
consists of a local host name along with its domain name. A host name is the logical
name assigned to a computer. For example,
example.com
A fully qualified domain name should be sufficient to determine a unique Internet
address for any host on the Internet. The same naming scheme is also used for
some hosts that are not on the Internet, but share the same namespace for electronic
mail addressing.
I have forgotten the Directory manager DN and password.
You can find out what the Directory Manager DN is by examining
/usr/netscape/servers/slapd-
nsslapd-rootdn
If you have forgotten the Directory Manager DN password, you can reset it by
doing the following:
Find the
1.
encrypted in any way (that is, it does not start with
password is exactly what is shown on the parameter.
If the attribute is encrypted, then delete the attribute value and replace it with
2.
some clear text value. For example, if you change the
attribute so that it is:
nsslapd-rootpw: my_password
then your Directory Manager DN password will be
Restart your Directory Server.
3.
Once your server has restarted, login as the Directory Manager and change the
4.
password. Make sure you select an encryption scheme when you do so.
For information on changing a Directory Manager password, see the Netscape
Directory Server Administrator's Guide.
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is a fully qualified domain name.
attribute.
attribute in slapd.conf. If the attribute value is not
nsslapd-rootpw
mycomputer
server ID
/config/dse.ldif
{SHA}
is a host name and
and looking for the
or ) then the
{CRYPT}
nsslapd-rootpw
.
my_password