Adding/Modify user password using ldifde

[Guest]

I have been trying to add and/or modify a user's password
in Active Directory using ldifde. I am in the process of
automating the creation of student accounts for a major
school system. For some reason I can not do the following:

1) Add a password for each user during creation
2) Modify a user's password after they have been created.

I have tried to user the unicodePwd tag(?) but it always
gives me an error message.

Any ideas?

 

[Dale Weiss]

Hello,

Setting the password with LDIFDE has some special requirements. Please see:

263991 How to Set a User's Password with Ldifde
http://kb/article.asp?id=Q263991

The Base64 aspect can be difficult to work with, and setting the password
requires an SSL connection to port 636, so some form of PKI has to be
deployed so that we have the certificates that are necessary.

Dale Weiss MCSA MCSE CISSP
PSS Security

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