Re: Creating Active Directory Objects

[Joe L. <jo...@op...>]

Here's something that may be useful in this conversation about AD =20
Objects. I wrote with some reference help a script to pack a SID as I =20=

was creating the necessary objects to create AD accounts from python =20
using python-ldap:

"""
packsid
"""

import base64,struct

def packsid(textsid):

   if textsid[0] !=3D 'S':
     return;
   data =3D (textsid[2:]).split('-')
   rev =3D int(data[0])
   idauth =3D int(data[1])
   subauthcount =3D len(data) - 2
   packedsid =3D struct.pack("8B", rev, subauthcount, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, =20
idauth)
   for i in range(0,subauthcount):
     addpack =3D struct.pack("<L", long(data[2+i]))
     packedsid =3D packedsid+addpack
   return packedsid

respack =3D packsid('S-1-5-21-1398680112-2183325515-263647921-996')
resenc =3D base64.encodestring(respack)
print resenc


I barely remember how I arrived at each part, but it was mostly =20
through trial and error.

On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Geert Jansen wrote:

> Michael Str=F6der wrote:
>
>> I vaguely remember that there are some issues with really =20
>> activating a
>> user entry as a Windows user. But this is not a problem of =20
>> accessing AD
>> via python-ldap.
>>
>
> This indeed rings a bell. You need to create the user as disabled =20
> (look
> for userAccountControl on MSDN), set a compliant password, and then
> enable him.
>
> Regards,
> Geert
>
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