Reset admin password

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Hi guys,

thanks to this thread and discussion ! (I struggled with this issue many times now :confused: )

Based on the messages of @frog, @bastien and @jerome, I was able to write this small convenient script that allow to reset the admin password while being logged as root :slight_smile: .

(:warning: You might want to backup /etc/ldap before using this, just in case)

# Generate new password hash
NEW_PASSWORD_HASH=`slappasswd -h {SSHA}`

# Stop slapd service...
service slapd stop

# Backup slapd.conf (to be restored at the end of script)
cp /etc/ldap/slapd.conf /root/slapd.conf.bkp

# Append lines to slapd.conf to manually define root password hash
echo 'rootdn "cn=admin,dc=yunohost,dc=org"' >> /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
echo "rootpw $NEW_PASSWORD_HASH" >> /etc/ldap/slapd.conf

# Test conf (might not be entirely necessary though :P)
slaptest -Q -u -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf 

# Regenerate slapd.d directory
rm -Rf /etc/ldap/slapd.d
mkdir /etc/ldap/slapd.d
slaptest -f /etc/ldap/slapd.conf -F /etc/ldap/slapd.d/ 2>&1

# Set permissions to slapd.d
chown -R openldap:openldap /etc/ldap/slapd.d/

# Restore slapd.conf
mv /root/slapd.conf.bkp /etc/ldap/slapd.conf

# Restart slapd service
service slapd start
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