ldap_modify

ldap_mod_del

[edit] Last updated: Fri, 26 Apr 2013

ldap_mod_replace

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

ldap_mod_replace — Replace attribute values with new ones

Description

bool ldap_mod_replace ( resource $link_identifier , string $dn , array $entry )

Replaces one or more attributes from the specified dn. It performs the modification at the attribute level as opposed to the object level. Object-level modifications are done by the ldap_modify() function.

Parameters

link_identifier: An LDAP link identifier, returned by ldap_connect().
dn: The distinguished name of an LDAP entity.
entry

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Notes

Note: This function is binary-safe.


For openldap 2.x server ,there is a rule-order, by default(2.3+), rules going in order:



access to * by * read



access to attr=userPassword,SambaNTPassword

    by self write

    by anonymous auth

    by * none



so that will NOT allow yourself to change your password, that will:



access to attr=userPassword,SambaNTPassword

    by self write

    by anonymous auth

    by * none



access to * by * read

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Anonymous ¶

11 months ago


this can not be used to change a password on an AD server that requires you to send the old and new password.



in order to do this use on shuts an sever make an admin-account that allows to change other ppl pw without suppling the old password first.

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plex909 ¶

4 years ago


Here's an easy way to encode AD "unicodepwd" values from linux... 





Download and install recode... 


http://www.gnu.org/software/recode/recode.html





Then write something like this...


<?php


function ADUnicodePwdValue($plain_txt_value)


{


    return str_replace("\n", "", shell_exec("echo -n '\"" . $plain_txt_value . "\"' | recode latin1..utf-16le/base64"));


}





$user["unicodepwd"] = ADUnicodePwdValue("my_password");





?>





[EDITOR thiago NOTE: The following text was sent by boyvanderlaak at gmail dot com as an important complement]





if you do not have access to your linux box but have Multibyte String enabled you could try the following for AD 2008:





<?php


$info["unicodePwd"] = mb_convert_encoding('"' . $newPassword . '"', 'utf-16le');


?>

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chris at mr2madness dot com ¶

5 years ago


You can use arrays for multiple attributes example:





<?php


$entry[mail] = array("example@example.com","example2@example.com");


$results = ldap_mod_add($ldapConnID,$dn, $entry);


?>


or as i did for creating anew user:


<?php


$adduserAD["objectClass"] = array("top","person","organizationalPerson","user");


?>

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mike dot rosile at interzonegames dot com ¶

5 years ago


Here is some great information from the OpenLDAP FAQs regarding changing a userPassword attribute with PHP:



http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/347.html



$userpassword = "{SHA}" . base64_encode( pack( "H*", sha1( $pass ) ) );

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aaronfulton at softhome dot net ¶

6 years ago


Before you modify values in your ldap directory, first make sure that you have permission to do so.  In openldap adding the following acl in slap.conf will allow the user to modify their own userpassword.



access to attr=userPassword

        by self write

        by anonymous auth

        by * none

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erwann at zeflip dot com ¶

6 years ago


If you do not wish to set up SSL on your active directory, and you are running on Windows, you can use COM and ADSI to set the new password for a user, or to active a user:



<?PHP

// to set a user password

  // server is the ldap server

  // newuser_dn is the full dn of the user you want to modify

  // newuser_password is the password you wish to set for the user



    $ADSI = new COM("LDAP:");

    $user = $ADSI->OpenDSObject("LDAP://".$server."/".$newuser_dn, $adminuser, $adminpassword, 1);

    $user->SetPassword($newuser_password);

    $user->SetInfo();



// to activate a user

    $ADSI = new COM("LDAP:");

    $user = $ADSI->OpenDSObject("LDAP://".$server."/".$newuser_dn, $adminuser, $adminpassword, 1);

    $user->AccountDisabled = false;

    $user->SetInfo();



?>

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EelBait ¶

6 years ago


Using ldap_mod_replace to change a user's password will not set the password using a hashed value, but rather in clear text. There doesn't seem to be a way to use the various password-change protocols (e.g. extended operation) using this API. You might be better off using the ldappasswd command-line tool to perform this function.

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frederic dot jacquot at insa-lyon dot fr ¶

8 years ago


Changing a user password in Active Directory.

Securely connect (using ldaps) to the Active Directory and bind using an administrator account.



In this example, $userDn contains the dn of the user I want to modify, and $ad is the Active Directory ldaps connection)



$newPassword = "MyPassword";

$newPassword = "\"" . $newPassword . "\"";

$len = strlen($newPassword);

for ($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++)

        $newPassw .= "{$newPassword{$i}}\000";

$newPassword = $newPassw;

$userdata["unicodepwd"] = $newPassword;

$result = ldap_mod_replace($ad, $userDn, $userdata);

if ($result) echo "User modified!" ;

else echo "There was a problem!";



I found it hard to get a proper encoding for the unicodepwd attribute so this piece of code might help you ;-)

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Anonymous ¶

10 years ago


Sometime,we cannot replace ldap_mod_replace  function  with ldap_mod_del function and ldap_mod_add fuction .We  don't have permission to delete an attribute but  we can replace it.

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ondrej at sury dot cz ¶

11 years ago


in openldap 2.0.x you can use method with mod_del/mod_add only if the attribute have defined EQUALITY rule.

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JoshuaStarr at aelana dot com ¶

11 years ago


To modify an attribute with a single value: 


  $entry[mail] = "newmail@aelana.com"; 


  $results = ldap_mod_add($ldapConnID,$dn, $entry); 





To modify an attribute with multiple values: 


  $entry[mail][] = "newmail@aelana.com"; 


  $entry[mail][] = "altnewmail@aelana.com"; 


  $results = ldap_mod_add($ldapConnID,$dn, $entry);





To modify multiple attributes


  $entry[mail][] = "newmail@aelana.com"; 


  $entry[mail][] = "altnewmail@aelana.com"; 


  $entry[c]      = "US";


  $results = ldap_mod_add($ldapConnID,$dn, $entry);

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oyvindmo at initio dot no ¶

12 years ago


ldap_mod_replace() and ldap_modify() are _exactly_ the same.  So, the comment that ldap_mod_replace() "performs the modification at the attribute level as opposed to the object level", has no root in reality.

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yife at myrice-ltd dot com ¶

12 years ago


if i want to replace the special attribute but i don't replace other attribute ,i just use "ldap_mod_del" and "ldap_mod_add" ,the function seems to that

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