Change password

[Jonathan H. <jon...@23...>]

Does anyone have a working password change script for active directory  
server that will run on Linux? We try and run as little as possible on  
windows.

I have found several but none actually run. I know I am committing  
list pho pa by asking this but I am an IT guy not a programmer so  
although am working on it do not yet have the skill to sort out stuff  
like this.

My attempt at a script authenticated fine but then when I tried to do  
a search or anything else claimed it was not able to talk to the  
server it had just authenticated against *sighs* I hate microsoft.

Thanks,

Jonathan

PS: my error in case anyone wants to help with that instead:

=> result: (97, [], 1, [])
Bind result: (97, [])
Running search: (objectClass=user)(mail=*)
*** ldap://my.ldap.server:389 - SimpleLDAPObject.search_ext  
(('cn=Users,my.dc', 2, '(objectClass=user)(mail=*)', ['*'], 0, None,  
None, -1, 0),{})
=> result: 2
*** ldap://my.ldap.server:389 - SimpleLDAPObject.result3 ((2, 1, -1),{})
=> LDAPError - SERVER_DOWN: {'info': '', 'desc': "Can't contact LDAP  
server"}
Can't contact LDAP server