Change the administrative password

About this task

Root users are governed by the Root Password Policy and by default, their passwords never expire. However, if a root user’s password must be changed, use the ldappasswordmodify tool.

Steps

Open a text editor and create a text file containing the new password. In this example, name the file rootuser.txt.
```
$ echo password > rootuser.txt
```

Use ldappasswordmodify to change the root user’s password.

$ bin/ldappasswordmodify --port 1389 --bindDN "cn=Directory Manager" \
--bindPassword secret --newPasswordFile rootuser.txt

Remove the text file.
```
$ rm rootuser.txt
```