Sandro Duarte wrote:
> Justin,
>
> Have you had any luck about this?
>
> I'm having the same problem here...
>
> TIA,
>
> Sandro
>
> Justin Grudzien wrote:
>> I am building an application in Rails using ruby-net-ldap and I am
>> trying to figure out how to change passwords in Active Directory. Does
>> anyone have any experience with this using the ruby-net-ldap gem? I know
>> that I remember seeing an example on the web somewhere that showed how
>> to do this using the depot application from the Rails book but for the
>> life of me I can't find it again. :( Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
I did figure it out.
My explanation is as follows:
Convert your OLD and NEW passwords into some goofy kind of unicode.
Create a two element array (1. delete old password element, 2. Add new
password element) that modifies the unicodePwd attribute (represented as
:unicodePwd). Run an ldap modify on the proper dn for the user passing
it both operations from the array (if you need to know how to get the
user dn let me know but there are lots of examples out there.). If it
succeeds it will update the password!
def self.ct2uni(cleartextpwd)
quotepwd = '"' + cleartextpwd + '"'
unicodepwd = Iconv.iconv('UTF-16LE', 'UTF-8', quotepwd).first
return unicodepwd
end
oldUniPW = ct2uni( opassword )
newUniPW = ct2uni( newpass )
ops = [
[ :delete, :unicodePwd, [oldUniPW] ],
[ :add, :unicodePwd, [newUniPW] ]
]
unless( ldap_con.modify :dn => dn, :operations => ops )
ret[ :status ] = false
ret[ :message ] = "bad:!:Error changing password for user #{login}."
return( ret )
end
Justin
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