Changing/Setting Passwords in Active Directory

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I've been doing some searching but am not faring so well.

Does anyone know a clean and reliable way to change and or set passwords for
Windows accounts residing in Active Directory?

I'd rather not have to generate a VB script to be run for every user account
created.

Thanks,
Glen

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--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

2

I think I'm close but something is not working somewhere. This seems to be
the most promising approach but doesn't work:

require 'win32ole'
require 'Win32API'

adsi = WIN32OLE.connect("LDAP://cn=#{username},PATH_TO_CONTAINER")

adsi.put("SetPassword", "#{password}")
    this returns nil

adsi.invoke("SetPassword", "#{password}")
    this returns the string given as the password but nothing is changed

The following VB script works just fine:

Set objUser = GetObject _
("LDAP://my values here")
objUser.SetPassword "some password"

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On 8/27/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been doing some searching but am not faring so well.

Does anyone know a clean and reliable way to change and or set passwords
for
Windows accounts residing in Active Directory?

I'd rather not have to generate a VB script to be run for every user
account
created.

Thanks,
Glen

--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

3

Never mind, figured it out.

I needed to do:

adsi.SetPassword("password")

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On 8/27/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/27/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been doing some searching but am not faring so well.
>
> Does anyone know a clean and reliable way to change and or set passwords
> for
> Windows accounts residing in Active Directory?
>
> I'd rather not have to generate a VB script to be run for every user
> account
> created.
>
> Thanks,
> Glen
>
> --
> "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
> speak
> so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."
>
> -Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
>

I think I'm close but something is not working somewhere. This seems to
be
the most promising approach but doesn't work:

require 'win32ole'
require 'Win32API'

adsi = WIN32OLE.connect("LDAP://cn=#{username},PATH_TO_CONTAINER")

adsi.put("SetPassword", "#{password}")
    this returns nil

adsi.invoke("SetPassword", "#{password}")
    this returns the string given as the password but nothing is changed

The following VB script works just fine:

Set objUser = GetObject _
("LDAP://my values here")
objUser.SetPassword "some password"

--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)

--
"Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions speak
so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

-Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)