Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Disabling the User Cannot Change Password Option

Disables the User Cannot Change Password option, allowing the user to change their password.

Const ADS_ACETYPE_ACCESS_DENIED_OBJECT = &H6
Const CHANGE_PASSWORD_GUID  = _
  "{ab721a53-1e2f-11d0-9819-00aa0040529b}"
 
Set objUser = GetObject _
  ("LDAP://cn=myerken,ou=management,dc=fabrikam,dc=com")
Set objSD   = objUser.Get("nTSecurityDescriptor")
Set objDACL = objSD.DiscretionaryAcl
arrTrustees = Array("nt authority\self", "everyone")
 
For Each strTrustee In arrTrustees
  For Each ace In objDACL
    If(LCase(ace.Trustee) = strTrustee) Then
      If((ace.AceType = ADS_ACETYPE_ACCESS_DENIED_OBJECT) And _
        (LCase(ace.ObjectType) = CHANGE_PASSWORD_GUID)) Then
        objDACL.RemoveAce ace
      End If
    End If
  Next
Next
 
objUser.Put "nTSecurityDescriptor", objSD
objUser.SetInfo

This is a VB Script, this can be used by saving the file in .vbs file