Thanks for the help guys. It got me off to a great start. I have successfully
created a user in my AD. As you already eluded to, I am struggling with the
password attribute. Can the password attribute be set when creating a user.
From what I gathered, the password attribute is 'unicodePwd'.
Michael Ströder wrote:
> I vaguely remember that there are some issues with really activating a
> user entry as a Windows user. But this is not a problem of accessing AD
> via python-ldap.
>
This indeed rings a bell. You need to create the user as disabled (look
for userAccountControl on MSDN)
Geert Jansen wrote:
>
> It is definately possibly to create active directory users with
> python-ldap. You just need to take care that you set the minimum amount
> of attributes required, otherwise the addition will fail. I don't have
> any code ready at the moment, but just create a user object w