Change Active Directory Password

[snootalope]

I've been searching for a while now for a vbs script that our domain users can run that will allow them to change their password. I have to script this as there's an application I need to kill after they change it and relaunch to re-authenticate.

Anyway, I found this

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_ui_changepassword.php

-- but it doesn't appear to work. I can plug in the old password and set ta new one but the password itself doesn't get changed. Hoping someone here might know a vbs piece that can accomplish this. I've found a ton of scripts for an admin to change a users password, but not one for the user to change the password themselves.

 

[guitarzan]

In your link, the first (large) code box contains only a function. The function will do nothing unless it is called... which is what the box below it (labeled Sample VBScript Code) does. Combine the two and it should work

 

[guitarzan]

Ignore my post, I still had your other question open and answered it! oops.

 

[snootalope]

oh...

Told ya I wasn't the brightest at this stuff. So do I combine them in the same file?

 

[snootalope]

Ok, i combined them and it appears to do it's thing. However, it's not actually changing the active directory password even though it says it does.

 

[guitarzan]

All that code does is ask the user for an old password and a new password (with confirmation), and then returns it in an array. It does not do anything with active directory.

 

[Geates]

Most applications have a back-end, front-end, and a middle-ware layer. The link you posted is a "Change Password Dialog". It is only the front-end - how one interacts with the data. Active Directory is the back-end - the data with which one interacts. You need to create the middle-ware - the layer that connects the two ends.

front-end:

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_ui_changepassword.php

middle-ware:

http://www.geoff-n-kris.com/default.asp?pageID=10738

<- This has a crude front-end
back-end: Active Directory

For a challenge, and potentially less frustrated domain users, stitch the front-end script into the middle-ware script.

-Geates

http://ns7.webmasters.com/caspdoc/html/vbscript_language_reference.htm