September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 49m
English
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6.18. Setting a User’s Password via LDAP
Problem
You want to set the password for a user using LDAP.
Solution
You have to first enable SSL/TLS support in your Active Directory domain. See Recipe 14.1 for more on this.
You can then set the unicodePwd attribute of a
user object using LDAP operations over an SSL or
TLS connection.
The value for the unicodePwd attribute must be a
Unicode string that is surrounded by quotes and Base64 encoded. See
Recipe 10.4 for more on encoding text with
Base64.
Discussion
The unicodePwd attribute can be directly modified
over a SSL or TLS connection, but it can never be read.
See Also
Recipe 10.4 for more on Base64 encoding, Recipe 14.1 for enabling SSL/TLS, MS KB 263991 (How to Set a User’s Password with Ldifde), MS KB 264480 (Description of Password-Change Protocols in Windows 2000), and MS KB 269190 (HOWTO: Change a Windows 2000 User’s Password Through LDAP)
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