Changing Passwords in Active Directory with ruby-net-ldap

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I am building an application in Rails using ruby-net-ldap and I am trying to figure out how to change passwords in Active Directory. Does anyone have any experience with this using the ruby-net-ldap gem? I know that I remember seeing an example on the web somewhere that showed how to do this using the depot application from the Rails book but for the life of me I can't find it again. :frowning: Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Try replace_attribute: http://net-ldap.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Net/LDAP.html#M000030

from rdoc example for updating mail attribute:

  dn = "cn=modifyme,dc=example,dc=com"   ldap.replace_attribute dn, :mail, "newmailaddress@example.com"

I haven't worked with Active Directory specifically, so might be quirks regarding updating password (pre-digested/-encoded first, or ...?) . Best to have other means of re-setting password while testing what works.

Jeff

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Justin,

Have you had any luck about this?

I'm having the same problem here...

TIA,

Sandro

Justin Grudzien wrote:

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Thanks...

That did the trick.

Actually I used this code:

    def microsoft_encode_password(pwd)       ret = ""       pwd = "\"" + pwd + "\""       pwd.length.times{|i| ret+= "#{pwd[i..i]}\000" }       ret     end

so you don't need the Iconv dependency.

Thanks again,

Sandro