activedirectory change password

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Hi all, I'm currently using Jusin Mecham's activedirectory-0.9.3 plugin. Does anyone know how can I implement change password against active directory? as a matter of fact, is there a way to update all other info in active directory in rails?

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paul wrote:

Hi all, I'm currently using Jusin Mecham's activedirectory-0.9.3 plugin. Does anyone know how can I implement change password against active directory? as a matter of fact, is there a way to update all other info in active directory in rails?

A change_password method has been added to the ActiveDirectory::User class in the activedirectory svn repository:

http://code.google.com/p/ruby-activedirectory/source

I don't think there is any way to change other attributes yet.

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Hi Phil, Just manage to see your message. I tried out your code today and got the following message, any idea?

a.change_password('mynewpass')

LDAP::ResultError: No Such Attribute         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activedirectory-1.0.0/lib/active_di ectory/user.rb:153:in `modify'         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activedirectory-1.0.0/lib/active_di ectory/user.rb:153:in `change_password'         from (irb):6

your code is

def change_password(new_password)       hash = {         'unicodePwd' => [ ActiveDirectory::Datatypes::UnicodePassword.to_remote(new_password) ],         'lockoutTime' => [ '0' ],         'userAccountControl' => [ UAC_NORMAL_ACCOUNT.to_s ]       }       Base.connection.raw.modify(dn,hash)     end