I'm connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database via DBI (and thus DBD::ODBC).

I think DBD::Sybase works as well?

The question is: How can my programs allow users to change their expired passwords? This is possible, somehow. If one of us runs TOAD and tries to connect with an expired password, TOAD pops up a dialog saying "Your password has expired. Enter old password new password new password again to confirm", and the change goes through just fine. How can I make my Perl programs do this too?

I dont know. It sounds like TOAD has some special access privs.