Changing the administrator password - PingDirectory

Page created: 26 Jul 2021 |

Page updated: 7 Dec 2022

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9.0 Product PingDirectory Directory Capability Product documentation Content Type Administration User task Configuration System Administrator Administrator Audience IT Administrator Software Deployment Method

Root users are governed by the root password policy and by default, their passwords never expire. To change a root user password, use the ldappasswordmodify tool.

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

To change the root user's password, run ldappasswordmodify.

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

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