From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2007-08-28T00:43:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Changing/Setting Passwords in Active Directory

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Never mind, figured it out.

I needed to do:

adsi.SetPassword("password")

On 8/27/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/27/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've been doing some searching but am not faring so well.
> >
> > Does anyone know a clean and reliable way to change and or set passwords
> > for
> > Windows accounts residing in Active Directory?
> >
> > I'd rather not have to generate a VB script to be run for every user
> > account
> > created.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Glen
> >
> > --
> > "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
> > speak
> > so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."
> >
> > -Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
> >
>
> I think I'm close but something is not working somewhere.  This seems to
> be
> the most promising approach but doesn't work:
>
> require 'win32ole'
> require 'Win32API'
>
> adsi = WIN32OLE.connect("LDAP://cn=#{username},PATH_TO_CONTAINER")
>
> adsi.put("SetPassword", "#{password}")
>     this returns nil
>
> adsi.invoke("SetPassword", "#{password}")
>     this returns the string given as the password but nothing is changed
>
> The following VB script works just fine:
>
> Set objUser = GetObject _
> ("LDAP://my values here")
> objUser.SetPassword "some password"
>
>
>
> --
> "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
> speak
> so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."
>
> -Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
>



-- 
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

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