Re: Bug#768509: debian-edu-config: After upgrading a Wheezy main-server to Debian 7.7 the Gosa gui fails to connect to LDAP

[Giorgio Pioda <gfwp@ticino.com>]

> This seems to work getting an upgraded Wheezy main-server working again 
> (no need to generate a new gosa.conf):
> 
> (1) cat /dev/null > /etc/gosa/gosa.secrets
> (2) take the random cleartext password from gosa.conf.orig and put it
>     instead of the encrypted long one into gosa.conf (actually twice: 
>     adminPassword and snapshotAdminPassword)
> (3) restart apache2
> 
> From a security point of view it's probably more than dubious...
> Maybe gosa-encrypt-passwords has to be adjusted. 

I confirm that this approach fixes the issue.

Thanks Wolfgang !

I'm also pretty dubious about security, but this file is going
to be used only locally. I hope to see a GOsa package update with
a better, cleaner reset.

Regards

Giorgio

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