changing passwords

RayRay459 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

while running this script, i get this error : "Couldn't set the attributes: at C:\scripts\perl\changepass.pl line 19." can anyone help. i am trying to change local admin password on remote machines. Or does anyone know of a better way to do this? thnx. Ray

# Ray Espinoza
# ChangePass.pl
# This script will attempt to change the local admin password on a mac
+hine.
######################################################################
+#############
#!D:\perl\bin -w
use Win32::AdminMisc;

$Server = "\\\\muskrat";
$UserName = "Administrator";
$UserFullName = "Administrator";
$Password = "testing";
$PasswordAge = 0;
$Privilege = "USER_PRIV_USER";
$HomeDir = "C:/winnt";
$Comment = 0;
$Flags = 0;
$ScriptPath = "C:/scripts/perl/changepass.pl";

Win32::AdminMisc::UserSetAttributes( $Server, $UserName, $UserFullName
+, $Password, $PasswordAge, $Privilege, $HomeDir, $Comment, $Flags, $S
+criptPath ) ||
    die "Couldn't set the attributes: $!";
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Re: changing passwords by LD2 (Curate) on Aug 11, 2001 at 00:02 UTC
You may want to look at the Win32::AdminMisc FAQ... Just an update, `UserSetAttributes( $Server, $UserName, $UserFullName, $Password, $PasswordAge, $Privilege, $HomeDir, $Comment, $Flags, $ScriptPath )` is no longer used. According to the FAQ, the function is now obsolete. You probably want to update your code to use: UserSetMiscAttributes( $Domain, $User, $Attribute, $Value[, $Attribute +, $Value]... ) This will set set particular account details for the user $User in dom +ain $Domain. If $Domain is null then the default domain will be assum +ed. $Attribute must be one of the valid account attributes and $Value + must be a valid attribute value. Example: Win32::AdminMisc::UserSetMiscAttributes('', 'cartman', USER_HOME_DIR => "c:\\users\\c +artman", USER_FULL_NAME => "Eric Cartma +n"); Returns: 0 if unsuccessful 1 if successful [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: changing passwords by OzzyOsbourne (Chaplain) on Aug 10, 2001 at 22:29 UTC
you could avoid all of this and use `net user $UserName $Password`, but that doesn't tell you why this doesn't work... -OzzyOsbourne	[reply] [d/l]
Re: changing passwords by joefission (Monk) on Aug 10, 2001 at 22:55 UTC
My apologies for my last attempt to help. I didn't have a win32 machine to really test, I just saw the escaped character issue. Anyway, according to Dave, you shouldn't use the UserSetAttributes function. I would recommend the SetPassword function instead for your purposes. Make sure you have adminsistrative rights on the remote machine that you are trying to modify, too. Wouldn't hurt to grab the latest version of AdminMisc from Dave as well. Good Luck!	[reply]