Batch changing passwords

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

Bit of a strange one for you here.

After many weeks of not getting great results using methods such as admitmac, and other AD integration techniques to get a working solution in our local authority (council & schools).
We have decided to go the Xserve/OD/AFP homefolder route.

However, we have used a great web based ldap admin tool called phpldapadmin, and a pc server based ldap admin tool called umra to remotely log in and “hard edit” the xserves OD, we have done this by mapping AD attributes to apples OD attributes such as username > UID, etc etc so we have got a good system to mirror AD into OD. We have managed to populate Open directory, and are pleased with the results.

However, although we are sending a password (which is actually just the same as the username) it does not work.

I have to manually go into workgroup manager to change the password, then the account works.

Is there a way to batch change all the passwords on OD so that they match the username? this would be a great help.

or perhaps someone knows a method of how to program these passwords correctly when using other ldap tools, as a footnote, we are happy to use clear text passwords in this case.

Best Regards,
Brad Holland
Salford City Council

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