Thanks...
That did the trick.
Actually I used this code:
def microsoft_encode_password(pwd)
ret = ""
pwd = "\"" + pwd + "\""
pwd.length.times{|i| ret+= "#{pwd[i..i]}\000" }
ret
end
so you don't need the Iconv dependency.
Thanks again,
Sandro
>
> 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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