Re: Problems with creating a user password

[Graham Barr]

On 16 Apr 2004, at 00:10, Christopher A Bongaarts wrote:
In the immortal words of Paul Connolly:
The password attribute in Active Directory is unicodePwd (in 
objectClass
securityPrincipal) and not userPassword. Note that you can only 
perform
LDAP operations on unicodePwd if SSL is being used.
Also, the unicodePwd requires special formatting in order to be
accepted by the server (search the list archives; I've posted code to
do this a few times...)
Sounds like an FAQ candidate then.

Graham.