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Roland Gruber 2016-12-28 18:26:17 +01:00
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<appendix> <appendix>
<title>Troubleshooting</title> <title>Troubleshooting</title>
<section>
<title>Reset configuration password</title>
<para>The password for the server profiles can be reset using the master
configuration password. Open LAM configuration -&gt; Edit server
profiles -&gt;Manage server profiles for this.</para>
<para>In case you lost your master configuration password you need to
manually edit the main configuration file (config.cfg) on the file
system.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Locate config.cfg: On DEB/RPM installations it is in
/usr/share/ldap-account-manager/config and for tar.bz2 in config
folder.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Locate the "password" entry in the file</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Replace the password hash after "password: " with your new
clear-text password (e.g. "secret")</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>After the change the line should look like this:</para>
<literallayout>password: secret</literallayout>
<para>You can now login using your new password. Set the password once
again via GUI in main configuration settings. This will then put again a
hash value in the config.cfg file.</para>
</section>
<section> <section>
<title>Functional issues</title> <title>Functional issues</title>