[THIN] Re: NFuse (or Web Interface) password changer

Not a bad idea, I'll give that a try.

Thanks,

Jeff 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul DeHaan [mailto:wppad@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:01 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: NFuse (or Web Interface) password changer
> 
> I ran into similar issues on my NFuse 1.6 box a while back.  
> Not sure if the new 2.1 version is laid out the same, but I 
> tracked down the .asp page where the ADSI code was attempting 
> to change the password.  It has been a while, so I don't 
> remember exactly which .asp page the code was in (email me if 
> you want me to look).  
> 
> What I did was add a line of code (after the code attempting 
> to reset the password) that prompted a msgbox to display what 
> the error was (for testing).  Looked something like: 
> 
> msgbox "Error #: " & err.number & " Error Description: " 
> err.description
> 
> I then tried a few things that I new wouldn't work (ie. 
> access denied, doesn't meet policy, etc) to find out what 
> errors it would produce.  After finding the error numbers 
> (something like -2147358896), I created a select statement 
> that gave the user a more descriptive/friendly message if the 
> err number matches something I know.
> 
> It sure was the long way to do this, but I didn't find any 
> docs on this elsewhere.  If 2.1 is still using ADSI code that 
> is accessible to change passwords, you should be able to 
> modify the code yourself.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul DeHaan CCNA, CCA...
> Network Administrator
> J.M. Huber Corp.
> 
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> >>> Jeff.Gunn@xxxxxxx 11/10/03 11:11AM >>>
> Hey all - 
> I'm trying to get the built-in password changer working for 
> Web Interface
> 2.1. The web interface box is my 2003 test machine, which is 
> a front end for
> my test farm of 2000 servers. They authenticate to an NT4 domain. 
> Anyway, I set the option in the Nfuse.conf to turn on the 
> password reset
> features ("AllowUserPasswordChange=always") and the password 
> changer button
> appears. However, when I attempt to change the password on my 
> test ID, it
> gives me this very helpful error: 
> "ERROR: The change password operation failed" 
> Which doesn't really help much in terms of troubleshooting. 
> This ID does
> have the right to change it's own password. Also, since the 
> machine is in a
> test domain, I made sure I was logged in with a user in that 
> test domain -
> just in case some kind of trust issue was to blame. I've also 
> checked the
> even log on the web interface server. Can anyone suggest a 
> way to get more
> detail on what the problem is, or can anyone point out 
> anything obvious I've
> missed? 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> > Jeff Gunn
> > FISG - Infrastructure Services Group
> > Fidelity Investments - Merrimack, NH
> > jeff.gunn@xxxxxxx 
> > 603.791.5310
> > 
> 
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