QuickGuide about recovering lost supervisor password on Sun One Directory Server 5.2
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We assume here that server root is /var/opt/mps/serverroot.

-bash-3.00# cd /var/opt/mps/serverroot/slapd-`hostname`

-bash-3.00# /usr/ucb/ps uaxwww | grep slapd
root     100712  0.2  4.58190046512 ?        S 11:11:13  0:05 ./ns-slapd -D /var/opt/mps/serverroot/slapd-krogoth -i /var/opt/mps/serverroot/slapd-krogoth/logs/pid

-bash-3.00# ./stop-slapd

Now we ensure that server is not running anymore:

-bash-3.00# /usr/ucb/ps uaxwww | grep slapd
root     102135  0.1  0.1 1132  856 pts/1    S 12:03:53  0:00 grep slapd

We generate new password ( SSHA hash ):
-bash-3.00# ./getpwenc SSHA newpassword
{SSHA}mX/jvZ/4b1CSr0W37EjC5ImYWpIqHHhpvGmrAA==

-bash-3.00# cd config
-bash-3.00# cp dse.ldif dse.ldif-`date +%d%m%y`
-bash-3.00# ls -al
total 926
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Sep 20 12:03 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root     root        1024 Sep 20 12:02 ..
-rw-------   1 root     root       93904 Sep 20 12:02 dse.ldif
-rw-------   1 root     root       93904 Sep 20 12:03 dse.ldif-
-rw-------   1 root     root       93904 Sep 20 12:03 dse.ldif-200906
-rw-------   1 root     root       93904 Sep 20 12:02 dse.ldif.bak
-rw-------   1 root     root       93904 Sep  6 13:31 dse.ldif.startOK
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        1024 Aug 21 00:23 schema

-bash-3.00# vim dse.ldif

Locate nsslapd-rootpw and replace old string begining with {SSHA}.. with new generated string 
from getpwenc. Save file. Start slapd:

-bash-3.00# cd ..
-bash-3.00# ./start-slapd

The End.
-vnull 2006