Hello John,
Why does it matter?
Why not just ignore the specific type of exception raised by an invalid
SetPassword() or SetInfo() request as follows:
try:
adsuser.SetPassword(trans.password)
adsuser.SetInfo()
except <specific type of SetPassword exception to ignore goes here>:
pass # or whatever
except <specific type of SetInfo exception to ignore goes here>:
pass # or whatever
except Exception, details:
pass # or take whatever action is desired
-- jv
Gooch, John wrote:
> I have a script that changes user passwords, and it throws exceptions
> then executing the SetPassword() or SetInfo() commands on a AD user
> account that it does not have "set password" privileges on. To avoid
> the exception being thrown, I would like to have the script check
> whether or not it has permission to change the password before trying
> to change it ( make sense? ), but I cannot find any good documentation
> on this after a few hours of Googling for it.
>
> Do anyone have guidance ( or better yet, an answer ) on figuring out
> how to implement this.
>
> here is a small snippet of the code I have now :
>
>
> adsuser = getADSUser( trans.adspath )#Retrieve a copy of the
> users AD Account
> if ( adsuser ):
> trans.email = adsuser.mail
> trans.firstname = adsuser.givenName
> trans.lastname = adsuser.sn
> trans.displayname = adsuser.displayname
> #trans.pwdLastChanged1 = adsuser.PasswordLastChanged
> #trans.pwdLastChanged1 = time.strftime( "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
> time.gmtime( adsuser.PasswordLastChanged ) )
> trans.pwdLastChanged1 = str( adsuser.PasswordLastChanged )
> error = NewPassword( trans )
> if ( not error ):
> if ( validEmail( trans.email ) ):
> try:
> print "new password is %s" % trans.password
> adsuser.SetPassword( trans.password )
> #x=1
> #adsuser.SetInfo()
> print "Password change successful. %s" % trans.username
> except pythoncom.com_error, error:
> #print "Password change failed. for %s" %
> trans.username
> return "Set Password failure. COM Error:%s" % str(
> error )
> except Exception, error:
> return "Set Password failure. General Error:%s" %
> str(error)
> try:
> adsuser = None
> adsuser = getADSUser( trans.adspath ) #Retrieve a
> copy of the users AD Account
> trans.pwdLastChanged2 = str(
> adsuser.PasswordLastChanged )
> except:
> return "Password change verification failure -
> Unable to retrieve PasswordLastChanged Timestamp after changing the
> password." % ( trans.pwdLastChanged1,trans.pwdLastChanged2 )
>
> if ( trans.pwdLastChanged1 == trans.pwdLastChanged2 ):
> return "Password change verification failure -
> PasswordLastChange Value did not change after executing the
> SetPassword Command.Before:%s Date After Date:%s" % (
> trans.pwdLastChanged1,trans.pwdLastChanged2 )
> else:
> #print "Password change verification success -
> PasswordLastChange Value did change after executing the SetPassword
> Command.Before:%s Date After Date:%s" % (
> trans.pwdLastChanged1,trans.pwdLastChanged2 )
> return None
> Thank You,
>
>
>
> John A. Gooch
> "May the Python-force be with you...always."
> Systems Administrator
> EchoStar Satellite L.L.C.
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>
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