How do I resolve “WILL_NOT_PERFORM” MS AD reply when trying to change password in scala w/ the unboundid LDAP SDK?

Question

I\'m wrestling with Active Directory, trying to get it to let me change a password. I\'ve found tons of useful information, but I\'m still getting a persistent error.

Answer 1

My guess is "unicodePwd: " + '"' + newPass + '"' is circumventing your encoding (as String has to be converted to bytes again and I bet it's not using the right encoding).

Try using the version of MofifyRequest that takes Modification objects and then use the constructor that takes the attributes value as bytes.

val newPass = "\"Jfi8ZH8#k\"".getBytes("UTF-16LE")
// note the dquotes inside the string

val mod = new Modification(ModificationType.REPLACE, "unicodePwd", newPass)

just like in the blog post you linked to...