Hmmm interesting. It certainly does what it says on the tin. Don't suppose you know how to create an 8 character alphanumeric random string of characters do you ?
Thanks -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2006 09:00 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Changing a users password Delegate the ability to reset password to your helpdesk lady. Then grab http://www.rlmueller.net/Programs/ResetPassword.txt Clean that up, put it behind an asp page that requires authentication. Give your helpdesk lady access to the page and show her how to use it. Sincerely, _____ (, / | /) /) /) /---| (/_ ______ ___// _ // _ ) / |_/(__(_) // (_(_)(/_(_(_/(__(/_ (_/ /) (/ Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com <http://www.readymaids.com> - we know IT www.akomolafe.com <http://www.akomolafe.com> Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Oliver Marshall Sent: Wed 4/12/2006 12:45 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Changing a users password Net user command only works if you have full admin rights. I've google'd till 2am this morning, haven't found any free script that doesn't use the DN. Cant use ADUC as I'm afraid that, if they see what info they *could* change, that it will snowball and they will want to change it all. The whole reason for this is that I am out of the office more and more and users here have a massive issue with passwords. At the moment they right them down on a pad on the "receptionists" desk (I say receptionist, but this lady has been here longer than the earth has been turning, and I would rather she could generate a new random password with "change on next logon" for all the users in a given OU than have the passwords written on a pad on someones desk, admin users are in a diff OU). I'll keep hunting. Thanks for the help anyway. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-Weidner Sent: 12 April 2006 07:01 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Changing a users password Hi Oliver, First of all the receptionist needs to be delegated the rights to reset users passwords, as well as being made aware of the consequences (local credential cache of the users f.e.). To reset the password you can use commands like "net user username password /domain" or you can use AD-Tools like ADUC, "dsquery user domainroot -name whatever | dsmod -pwd newpass -mustchangepwd yes", or you can create your own script which searches for the user and changes password after asking for approval. Www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter provides the examples you have to glue together for this. Gruesse - Sincerely, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner MVP-Book "Windows XP - Die Expertentipps": http://tinyurl.com/44zcz Weblog: http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner Website: http://www.windowsserverfaq.org Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=35E388DE-4885-4308-B489-F2F1214 C811 D |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of |Oliver Marshall |Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:56 AM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: [ActiveDir] Changing a users password | |Hi, | |I want to create a script that will allow a user here to |change the password of any other user. | |I have found several examples, most based on the examples on |the MS site. Thing is, they all depend on knowing the |Distinguished Name of the user, and the poor old receptionist |wont have a clue what that is. | |Can anyone help me with a script that will change the password |of a user just knowing the username of the user ? At the least |I'm after some code to find the DN of a user from their |username, and I can then use that with the code I already have |(I think). | | |Thanks | |Olly |List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx |List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx |List archive: |http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
