Password validation against active directory.
Hi All,
I currently have a script that challenges the user for a username and password that is passed on to map drives among other things. I'm trying to add validation to this for incorrect passwords. ie. if the password is incorrect the drive mapping is attempted with the wrong password and you are presented with a windows gui logon. I've had to exit the script and start again.
Is there a way to validate a password against active directory to give an error code rather than it attempt to p
If you are running Windows Vista or later you can try my Active Directory UDF (for download please see my signature below).
The _AD_Open function returns detailed error information in case of an error. This and more errors are handled:
525 - user not found
52e - invalid credentials
530 - not permitted to logon at this time
532 - password expired
533 - account disabled
701 - account expired
773 - user must reset password
The validation code could look like:
#include <AD.au3