i have played with password syntax, enabling and disabling and restarting each time dirsrv, until i was not able to see anything in the directory tree then, i logged off by admin console and when i try to access again i see Cannot connect to directory server: netscape.ldap.LDAPException: error result(49): password expired!; Invalid Credentials i followed Rich suggestion and i read this: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:AdminServerLDAPMgmt but i cannot find anything o=netscaperoot related: /usr/bin/ldapsearch -x -b o=netscaperoot -D "cn=directory manager" -w xxxx "objectclass=nsAdminConfig" # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <o=netscaperoot> with scope subtree # filter: objectclass=nsAdminConfig # requesting: ALL # # search result search: 2 result: 0 Success # numResponses: 1 so admin config was lost? can i recover in same way? should i reinstall again? tia -m -- 389 users mailing list 389-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users