Hi guys, I have looked around but I cannot find a solution. In a 4 year old node a Windows-only solution was identified, but I need to be able to update Windows passwords from Linux.

I suppose we could create a separate service on a Windows machine which my Linux perl script talked to but this would be highly undesirable. kinit and kpasswd utilities are also be sufficient just to change Active Directory passwords from Linux, but we will likely need to do other things as well.

I think the real challenge is understanding how to use SSL properly (which I do not) so I will post my code snippet and related error message and see if any of you can help me. 

use Net::LDAP;
use Net::LDAPS;

$uri = "ldaps://mywin2k3vm.mydomain.com";

$ad=Net::LDAPS->new($uri) or die "FAILED: $@";

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This exits with the error "FAILED: IO::Socket::SSL: Timeout at ./setpasswd.pl line 25, <DATA> line 225."

Running sniffit as root, I can see that a connection from my machine is made to the Win2k3 Active Directory on the correct port (636).

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Many thanks,

Rohit Mehta

In reply to problem binding to Windows 2003 Active Directory using LDAPS (from Linux) by Cmdr_Tofu

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