RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-22 Thread joe
and have great fervor. They just don't make the decisions. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Suhovey Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:17 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-22 Thread Rich Milburn
AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer I won't take credit, I am sure others came up with a similar idea, I just happened to have met Iain and he told me to email him (he wanted a link to my website) and I did and that is one of the other things I mentioned

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread Alexander Suhovey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 4:50 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] password changer That's what I'm after. I was hoping Al had a way to query

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread Alexander Suhovey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:39 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer I think AlM is pointing out that it isn't generic. Everyone would

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread joe
and then tweak it to do other things. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Suhovey Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:34 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer -Original Message- From

Re: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread Al Mulnick
t: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:39 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer I think AlM is pointing out that it isn't generic. Everyone would need to encode their rules into the script which quite frankly and sadly is well beyond the capability of

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread Robert Williams \(Volt\)
and then tweak it to do other things. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Suhovey Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:34 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer -Original Message

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread Crawford, Scott
@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer I could also argue that automation one of most important tasks in system administration and therefore scripting is a 'must know' for nearly every sys admin Hi, I'm joe, I guess we haven't met. For this exercise you may call me the choir

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread Alexander Suhovey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:40 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer RE: ...have all GUI tools output MONAD output

Re: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-20 Thread Al Mulnick
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] password changer Al, just so I understand you're not querying for the password complexity in this script, but rather just making the script check what you already know the password complexity to be.Correct? Al On 12/17/05, Alexander Suhovey [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-20 Thread joe
: Re: [ActiveDir] password changer That's what I'm after. I was hoping Al had a way to query the password policy vs. trying the new password and seeing if it works/capturing the error code else writing a function that manually checks it. Al(M) On 12/19/05, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-19 Thread joe
: Saturday, December 17, 2005 2:45 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer Correct. This sample validates a string against a set of predefined requirements. Any problem with that?.. -- Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-17 Thread Alexander Suhovey
If anyone knows how to query a password against complexity requirements, I'd like to know how. When it comes to string validation the answer is almost always Regular Expressions. The vbscript example below tests arbitrary string for compliance with Password must meet security requirements

Re: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-17 Thread Al Mulnick
Al, just so I understand you're not querying for the password complexity in this script, but rather just making the script check what you already know the password complexity to be. Correct? AlOn 12/17/05, Alexander Suhovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone knows how to query a password

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-17 Thread Alexander Suhovey
@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] password changer Al, just so I understand you're not querying for the password complexity in this script, but rather just making the script check what you already know the password complexity to be. Correct? Al On 12/17/05, Alexander Suhovey [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-16 Thread Steve Rochford
] On Behalf Of WILLIAMS, J.D.Sent: 01 December 2005 15:42To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer #1: Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://NetBios Domain Name/" txtUserID.Text ",user") objUser.ChangePassword txtOldPass.T

Re: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-16 Thread Al Mulnick
: 01 December 2005 15:42 To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer #1:Set objUser = GetObject(WinNT://NetBios Domain Name/ txtUserID.Text ,user) objUser.ChangePassword txtOldPass.Text, txtPassword1.Text That is some code I pulled from

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
d serve as the store just as well (also in encrypted format). /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WILLIAMS, J.D.Sent: Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 16:42To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer #1: Set objUser = GetOb

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-01 Thread WILLIAMS, J.D.
#1: Set objUser = GetObject(WinNT://NetBios Domain Name/ txtUserID.Text ,user) objUser.ChangePassword txtOldPass.Text, txtPassword1.Text That is some code I pulled from an app to do a password change. There is a lot of error control within that app that checks to make sure the

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-01 Thread joe
For SAM Name you should know the domain as well as it may not be unique in the forest. For CN, good luck, there are no uniqueness requirements outside of container level I would be very hesitant to do anything based on that. If you have the domain you can do a lookup. Heck you can do a