Re: [Net::LDAP] Re: How To Set AD Password
Peter Karman <[email protected]>
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Christopher A Bongaarts wrote on 12/31/09 1:44 PM: > In the immortal words of Sheahan, John: > >> My script is successfully creating AD and Exchange accounts but I'm having trouble setting the password. >> >> I am setting these attributes: >> >> 'userPassword' => 'password', >> 'userAccountControl' => '66048', # activates the account and sets the password to never expire >> >> >> For some reason, the password is not being set but my script does not throw an error. > > Not sure why you're not seeing an error, but normally the userPassword > needs special encoding (UTF16 and quotation marks) and has other rules > associated with it (only settable on an SSL connection, e.g.) - search > the list archives/web for the details. you can see one implementation of setting a AD password, based on the list archives, in Net::LDAP::Class::User::AD on CPAN. Look at the source for the password() method and the private methods for encoding/decoding the string. -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . [email protected]