Re: changePassword, setPassword and pwdhistorylength, minpwdage

Thanks Joe for this. I was afraid this was the way it would be. Now to let 
management know how it works, and that if people realise this, they will 
always change their password using their secret question and answer.

Regards
Janette

"Joe Kaplan" <joseph.e.kaplan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> This is the normal expected behavior.
>
> SetPassword is intended for administrative resets by the administrator. 
> Administrative resets need to be able to ignore the min pwd age and 
> history because they are typically only done in non-standard situations.
>
> SetPassword is often adapted for use in a self-service password reset 
> capacity, but it was never really intended for that, so the rules that 
> apply to administrative resets are still enforced there as well.
>
> You cannot change the behavior of SetPassword.  However, unless you 
> somehow had the previous password available, you cannot call 
> ChangePassword either.
>
> Joe K.
> -- 
> Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
> Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services 
> Programming"
> http://www.directoryprogramming.net
> --
> "Janette" <jtowell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working on a system that requires the implementation of 
>> pwdhistorylength and a minpwdage. Previously the system used 
>> changePassword when the user could remember their password and wanted
to 
>> change it, and uses setPassword when they are changing their password
via 
>> the help of a secret question and answer. I have just discovered whilst

>> testing that the setPassword method appears to ignore the password
policy 
>> attributes such as pwdhistorylength and minpwdage. Can anyone explain
why 
>> this might happen, and if there is any way of enforcing the password 
>> policy regardless of the method that is called to change the password.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Janette
>>
>>
>>
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