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Change user's password on Active Directory through VBScript/LDAP, USING ALTERNATIVE CREDENTIALS

Asked by bottishamvc in PHP and Databases, Programming User Management, VB Script

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I run a PHP/MySQL intranet in a school environment.  I wish to be able to allow teachers to change pupil passwords through an intranet page.  The teachers are standard users, so I need to authenticate them to LDAP as a Domain Admin user.  I gave up on connecting to LDAPS directly through PHP, as the Certificate Services simply wouldn't work, so have reverted to Plan B, which is to call a VBScript (below), using the exec() function in PHP.  I am much of the way there, as the script works when logged in as a Domain Admin, but not as a standard user.  Ideally, I guess, anyone in the security group 'Staff' would be able to change passwords without having to embed admin credentials.

The web server environment I am running is IIS on Windows 2003, with PHP.  The same server is one of many Domain Controllers, so can take direct LDAP requests.

The help I need is to be shown how to bind to Active Directory using credentials other than those of the current user.  I thought I had it with "objConnection.Properties("User ID")" etc, but my weak VBScript knowledge has taken its tole.  Any help would be very much appreciated.Start Free Trial 
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Dim pUsername
Dim pPassword
 
if WScript.Arguments.Named.Item ("pUsername") <> "" then pUsername = WScript.Arguments.Named.Item ("pUsername") else pUsername = "-"
if WScript.Arguments.Named.Item ("pPassword") <> "" then pPassword = WScript.Arguments.Named.Item ("pPassword") else pPassword = "password"
 
'Find the OU of the user passed as pUsername
On Error Resume Next
Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
 
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand =   CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
 
objConnection.Properties("User ID") = "domain\domainadminuser"
objConnection.Properties("Password") = "theirpassword"
objConnection.Properties("Encrypt Password") = TRUE
objConnection.Properties("ADSI Flag") = 3
 
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
 
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE 
 
objCommand.CommandText = _
    "SELECT distinguishedName FROM 'LDAP://dc=domain,dc=local' WHERE objectCategory='user' " & _
        "AND sAMAccountName='" & pUsername & "'"
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
 
objRecordSet.MoveFirst
Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
    vOU = objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
    objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop
' End find OU
 
' Reset the password of the user
Set objUser = GetObject ("LDAP://" & vOU)
 
'Set the user's initial password
objUser.SetPassword pPassword
objUser.Put "pwdLastSet", "0"
 
'Commit changes to directory
objUser.SetInfo
 
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