[cisco-voip] Reset Unity mailbox password..

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

Thanks Jim. Looks like there might be something there that Tim can use: http://www.ciscounitytools.com/Documents/programaticAdmin.doc


Update subscriber's password
Setting the password is easy going through the stored procedure since it will take care of hashing your raw phone password into an MD5 string for you on the back end.  MD5 strings should always be exactly 32 characters here.  Since phone passwords can only be 20 digits in length, the stored procedure assumes that if the string is 32 characters long it's already been hashed into an MD5 string and will pass it through directly.  Otherwise it'll hash it for you on the back end so you can simply pass through the raw digits for the phone password you want to set and it'll take care of it for you.  If you're paranoid you can also hash the phone password into it's MD5 string and then pass that into the stored procedure instead.  It'll handle it either way.

 

When setting the password for a subscriber it's up to you to be sure it complies with the password policy for the site.  If you pass in a blank string for the password, for instance, the phone password will be cleared.  You can check the phone password policies in the PwPolicy table in UnityDB.  The stored procedure does not do any enforcement of the site's policy, so make sure you're careful here.

 

    oCommand.CommandText = "sp_ModifySubscriber"

 

    oCommand.Parameters.Item("@SubscriberObjectID") = oCommand.CreateParameter("SubscriberObjectID", adGUID, adParamInput, , strSubscriberObjectID)

 

    'The phone password is passed in as clear text in this example - it gets crunched and encrypted by the SP during the subscriber update process.  You can pass in a "pre hashed" MD5 string yourself - if the string is exactly 32 characters long the stored proc will pass it through "as is".

    oCommand.Parameters.Item("@PWDTMF") = oCommand.CreateParameter("PWDTMF", adVarChar, adParamInput, , txtPhonePassword.Text)

    

'Passwords are not written through to the directory, no need to synch.

        oCommand.Parameters.Item("@DirectorySync") = oCommand.CreateParameter("DirectorySync", adInteger, adParamInput, , 0)

    

    'Let the stored procedure call rip.

    oCommand.Execute

 

Since phone passwords are not pushed into the directory there's no need to issue a synchronization request for this.  You're done.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim McBurnett 
  To: Tim Reimers ; Lelio Fulgenzi ; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
  Cc: Alan Surrette 
  Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:42 PM
  Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Reset Unity mailbox password..


  Take a look over at www.ciscounitytools.com

  There are some architecture notes there...

  J



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  From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Tim Reimers
  Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 9:19 PM
  To: Lelio Fulgenzi; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
  Cc: Alan Surrette
  Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Reset Unity mailbox password..


  You know, now that  I think about it--- hmm...

  I'll have to check around in AD on Unity and see where they've embedded the password in some AD field-- I'm betting that the mailbox password is in there somewhere..

  We have some internal experience in scripting AD for our main domain --- if it's there in AD in some schema extended field... hmmm..

  time to break out that LDAP browser that someone posted a link to - I did manage to get that to connect to Unity's AD, though not our data AD or the CCM DCDirectory..




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  From: Lelio Fulgenzi [mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca]
  Sent: Sat 9/16/2006 8:18 PM
  To: Tim Reimers; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
  Cc: Alan Surrette
  Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Reset Unity mailbox password..


  I have not seen anything like this. Although it would make for a great utility, say send their reset password to their email address. I cannot find any reference to an API like SOAP for unity, that would have helped immensely. You can try posting in the Cisco forums, I'm pretty sure Jeff Lindborgh reads that. Jeff was the primary developer for Unity and I believe he still is.

  If your users have the domain password available to them, check out the PCA login page. It's a little different than the web/sa pages and might fit your needs.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Tim Reimers 
    To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
    Cc: Alan Surrette 
    Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 12:08 PM
    Subject: [cisco-voip] Reset Unity mailbox password..



    hello everyone--

    I'm looking for a way to allow a subscribers Unity mailbox password to be reset in a way OTHER than through the Unity webpages (and TermServ to Unity)

    I really really need to limit the access of people to full Unity to just a few..
    .. but at the same time, those few of us with full access CANNOT keep up with the requests for resetting of passwords. (I know, you'd think that's a user education thing..)

    So -- I'm hoping for something like Greetings Administrator to have rights to reset passwords on any mailbox -- similar to how the person using GA can select any call handler and work with it..
    I'm hoping there's a level of access I can grant to a  additional staff members at remote sites just to be able to clear and reset a password using their phone and something like Greetings Administrator?

    If that's not clear, just email me and I'll try to confuse you some more... ;-)

    thanks, Tim


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