Installation guide

Common Installation Problems
76 Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide • May 2002
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
consistsofalocal hostnamealong withi ts domainname.Ahostnameisthelogical
name assigned to a computer. For example,
mycomputer is a host name and
example.com is a fully qualified domain name.
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 arenot 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-server ID/config/dse.ldif and looking for the
nsslapd-rootdn attribute.
If you have forgotten the Directory Manager DN password, you can reset it by
doing the following:
1. Find the nsslapd-rootpw attribute in slapd.conf.Iftheattributevalueisnot
encryptedinanyway(thatis,it doesnotstartwith
{SHA} or {CRYPT}) then the
password is exactly what is shown on the parameter.
2. If the attribute is encrypted, then delete the attribute value and replace it with
some clear text value. For example, if you change the
nsslapd-rootpw
attribute so that it is:
nsslapd-rootpw: my_password
then you r Directory Manager DN p assword will be my_password.
3. Res tart your Directory Server.
4. On ce your server has restarted, login as the D irectory Manager a nd change the
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.