Re: New to LDAP with Perl

[Mark W. <mew...@un...>]

Ugh, active directory.

Assuming the password is stored in the userpassword attribute, you should
be able to do something like this:
$ldap->modify("cn=NAME,ou=DEPT,ou=DIV,ou=SCHOOL,dc=SERV1,dc=cc,dc=umr,dc=edu",
              replace => { 'userpassword' => 'somepassword'});

should work. Might want to double check the name of the password attribute
in the active directory schema.

mark

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Edgington, Jeffrey Alan wrote:

> As I did not find anything in the archives that seemed to answer my
> question, I thought I would ask the list for some help.
> 
> I know how to change a password via VBS and LDAP... but I need to run this
> script from Unix and would prefer to write it in perl.
> 
> 
> This is the portion of the VBS script that changes the password...
> 
> Set adsUser =
> GetObject("LDAP://cn=NAME,ou=DEPT,ou=DIV,ou=SCHOOL,dc=SERV1,dc=cc,dc=umr,dc=
> edu")
> adsUser.SetPassword "NEWPASSWORD"
> 
> I have figured out how to connect to the ADS LDAP directory from perl
> (running on unix)... but once there, I am not sure how to translate the
> above lines into perl. 
> 
> I am using Net::LDAP to do my connection.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
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