Problem with OLE, ADSI and adding a local user account

[Berger, Daniel]

Hi all,

Ruby 1.8.2
Windows XP Pro

I'm trying to add a local user account with the following code:

# adsi_test.rb
require "socket"
require "win32ole"

host = Socket.gethostname

adsi = WIN32OLE.connect("WinNT://#{host},Computer")
u = adsi.create("user","bar")
u.setpassword("999fooBarQ2343")
u.setinfo # Boom!

It chokes on the setinfo call with this:

win32.rb:345:in `method_missing': setinfo (WIN32OLERuntimeError)
OLE error code:800708C5 in <Unknown>
<No Description>
HRESULT error code:0x80020009
Exception occurred. from win32.rb:345:in `add_user'
from win32.rb:385

Where "800708C5" is the error code for a password policy violation,
which generally means it's too short or has been used previously.
However, no matter what password I try, I get the same error.

What am I doing wrong?

Regards,

Dan

 

[dave.burt]

From MSDN, quoted at
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/26/134925.aspx

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For the LDAP provider, the user account must have been created and
stored in the underlying directory using IADs::SetInfo before
IADsUser::SetPassword is called.

The WinNT provider, however, allows you to set the password on a newly
created user object prior to calling SetInfo