Adding a user with a password in Active Directory LDAP

Question

this is my first time on StackOverflow, I hope I will get some responses here. I am using Windows Active Directory 2008 to store new user from java using the spring-ldap api

My problem is that I am unable to add user with password. I read somewhere that in AD to set a password, I should use the unicodePwd attribute. Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/lance/archive/2005/08/19/LdapAuthenticationASP.aspx

public void insertContact(ContactDTO contactDTO) {
    try{

     Attributes personAttributes = new BasicAttributes();
     BasicAttribute personBasicAttribute = new BasicAttribute("objectclass");
     personBasicAttribute.add("person");
     personBasicAttribute.add("user");
     personAttributes.put(personBasicAttribute);

      personAttributes.put("givenName", contactDTO.getCommonName());
      personAttributes.put("cn", contactDTO.getCommonName());
      personAttributes.put("sn", contactDTO.getLastName());
      personAttributes.put("description", contactDTO.getDescription());

      personAttributes.put("unicodePwd",
          this.createUnicodePassword(contactDTO.getPassword()) );
      personAttributes.put("userPrincipalName", contactDTO.getUserLoginName());
      personAttributes.put("sAMAccountName", contactDTO.getsAMAccountName());
      personAttributes.put("displayname", contactDTO.getDisplayname());
      //  personAttributes.put( "pwdLastSet", "0" );
      //  personAttributes.put( "LockOutTime", "0" );

      personAttributes.put("userAccountControl", "544");

      BasicAttribute roomAttribute = new BasicAttribute("roomNumber");
      for(String r : contactDTO.getRoomNumber())
      {
        roomAttribute.add(r);
      }

      personAttributes.put(roomAttribute);


      DistinguishedName newContactDN = new DistinguishedName();
      newContactDN.add("cn", contactDTO.getCommonName());

      ldapTemplate.bind(newContactDN, null, personAttributes);
    }

public byte[] createUnicodePassword(String password){
    return toUnicodeBytes(doubleQuoteString(password));
}

private byte[] toUnicodeBytes(String str){
    byte[] unicodeBytes = null;
    try{
        byte[] unicodeBytesWithQuotes = str.getBytes("Unicode");
        unicodeBytes = new byte[unicodeBytesWithQuotes.length - 2];
        System.arraycopy(unicodeBytesWithQuotes, 2, unicodeBytes, 0,
            unicodeBytesWithQuotes.length - 2);
    } catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e){
        // This should never happen.
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return unicodeBytes;
}

private String doubleQuoteString(String str){
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    sb.append("\"");
    sb.append(str);
    sb.append("\"");
    return sb.toString();
}

but it given me error code 53

enter code here: org.springframework.ldap.UncategorizedLdapException: Operation failed; nested exception is javax.naming.OperationNotSupportedException: [LDAP: error code 53 - 0000001F: SvcErr: DSID-031A11E5, problem 5003 (WILL_NOT_PERFORM), data 0

i not know how i set user password in AD. i also read some where to set unicodePwd we need SSL if this required than how i can do it. is there any alternative to solve this issue please help me

Answer 1

Yes, the WILL_NOT_PERFORM error is AD telling you that you need to use an SSL connection to set the password.

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To make an SSL connection, you need to use a URL that looks like: ldaps://your.ldap.server:636 (note the "ldaps"). If you get a certificate validation error, you'll need to use "keytool" to import the AD server's certificate into your Java keystore, so your Java application recognizes the certificate as valid.