Re: Changing passwords in Active Directory

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:49:20AM -0800, Eric Stokes wrote:
> Ok, thanks for you help, the actual solution is rather strange. 
> 
> This does not work 
> $result = $ldaps -> modify($dn, replace => [unicodePwd => $pass]); 
> 
> While this does work 
> $result = $ldaps -> modify($dn, replace => {unicodePwd => $pass}); 
> 
> just a guess, we must be sending a ghost operation when [] are used, 
> and that is killing the whole transaction. Anyway, thanks again. 

Its a bug. In both cases if you replace $pass wit [$pass] it should work.
This gets done for you when using a HASH, it should also when using
an ARRAY

Graham.

> 
> 	-E 
> 
> On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 04:34  PM, Eric Stokes wrote: 
> 
> 
> > Hello Gentlemen. I'm trying set a password in Active Directory via 
> > Net::LDAP. I've been running into trouble for a while now. I've 
> > read both your posts on the subject, and have tried your solutions. 
> > Needless to say, neither of them worked for me. 
> > 
> > Here is the code I am currently trying. Christopher Bongaarts's 
> > method yielded the same result. 
> > ... 
> > sub MakeUnicodePwd # from Norbert Klasen's post                     
> >                               
> > {                                                                   
> >              
> >     my $u = latin1("\"".$_[0]."\"");                                
> >              
> >     $u->byteswap();                                                 
> >              
> >     return $u->ucs2;                                                
> >              
> > } 
> > my $pass = MakeUnicodePwd("passw0rd1");                             
> >             
> > $result = $ldaps -> modify($dn, replace => [unicodePwd => $pass]);  
> >              
> > print $result -> code()."\n";                                       
> >              
> > print $result -> error()."\n";                                      
> >              
> > 
> > The error I get is 
> > 
> > 19 
> > 00002081: AtrErr: DSID-031D0AA0, #1: 
> >         0: 00002081: DSID-031D0AA0, problem 1005 
> > (CONSTRAINT_ATT_TYPE), data 0, Att 9005a (unicodePwd) 
> > 
> > Constraint violation? Possibly my data is not in the right format? 
> > I have verified that the DN I'm binding as has permission to set 
> > the password. I'm going over SSL (ciphers => "HIGH"). I've tried 
> > various different passwords just to make sure they're not trying to 
> > enforce good passwords at the ldap layer. I'm stumped, any ideas 
> > would be very helpful. 
> > 
> > 
> > 	-Eric Stokes 
> > 
> > Programmer Analyst, 
> > Information Technology Resources - Middleware Group, 
> > California State University Northridge
> 
>