mike.pet...@opengi.co.uk wrote:
> 
>> There's a MSDN article about how to set attribute unicodePwd via LDAP
>> in AD.
>
> If I try the alternative method however:
> 
> mod_attrs = [( ldap.MOD_REPLACE, 'unicodePwd', 'password' )]
> dn = 'CN=Barney Rubble,OU=Users,DC=mydomain,dc=local'
> r = l.modify_s(dn, mod_attrs)
> 
> I get:
> 
> {'info': '0000001F: SvcErr: DSID-031A0FC0, problem 5003 (WILL_NOT_PERFORM), 
> data 0\n', 'desc': 'Server is unwilling to perform'}
> 
> I guess I'm still missing something :(

Did you search for the MSDN article? The value has to be in your case above:

'"password"'.encode('utf-16-le')

Note the quotes and the UTF-16 low-endian encoding.

> One thing which may be relevant is if I use l.start_tls_s() before
> simple_bind_s, the login fails although without start_tls_s Wireshark shows
> the connection to be encrypted.

With AD the connection has to be encrypted for write access to unicodePwd but
that can also be done with ldaps:// on port 636.

Ciao, Michael.

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