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IBM AIX: Change the encrypted bind password in ldap.cfg

How To


Summary

This technote describes how to change the encrypted bind password in the /etc/security/ldap/ldap.cfg without having to reconfigure LDAP.

Steps

1. Use the -e option of secldapclntd to generate an encrypted password string based on the supplied password. For example, if the bind DN's password is "pass1234", run this command. Enclosing passwords in single quotation marks is recommended to prevent special characters from being interpreted by the shell.

/usr/sbin/secldapclntd -e 'pass1234'
An encrypted password string similar to the following is printed.

{DESv2}2D73C869 2585B66D841E713E4F9A1 2D1DA 5FF3EFD162C
Note: The string can contain spaces and is not terminated with a newline character.
2. Save a copy of /etc/security/ldap/ldap.cfg.
3. Edit /etc/security/ldap/ldap.cfg.
4. Search for the line starting with "bindpwd:".
5. Delete everything after the colon and then paste the encrypted password string at the end. In this example, the updated entry looks like this.

bindpwd:{DESv2}2D73C869 2585B66D841E713E4F9A1 2D1DA 5FF3EFD162C
6. Save the file.
7. Restart secldapclntd it to pick up the password change.

/usr/sbin/restart-secldapclntd

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 January 2023

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ibm10959491

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