# man > Net::LDAP::Extension::SetPassword

## NAME
    [Net::LDAP::Extension::SetPassword](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ALDAP%3A%3AExtension%3A%3ASetPassword/markdown) - LDAPv3 Modify Password extension object

## SYNOPSIS
     use [Net::LDAP](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ALDAP/markdown);
     use [Net::LDAP::Extension::SetPassword](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ALDAP%3A%3AExtension%3A%3ASetPassword/markdown);

     $ldap = [Net::LDAP](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ALDAP/markdown)->new( "ldap.mydomain.eg" );

     $ldap->bind('cn=Joe User,cn=People,dc=mydomain,dc=eg",
                 password => 'oldPassword');

     $mesg = $ldap->set_password( oldpasswd => 'oldPassword' );

     die "error: ", $mesg->code(), ": ", $mesg->error()  if ($mesg->code());

     print "changed your password to", $mesg->gen_password() , "\n";

## DESCRIPTION
    "[Net::LDAP::Extension::SetPassword](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ALDAP%3A%3AExtension%3A%3ASetPassword/markdown)" implements the "Modify Password" extended LDAPv3 operation
    as described in RFC 3062.

    It implements no object by itself but extends the [Net::LDAP](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ALDAP/markdown) object by another method:

## METHODS
    set_password ( OPTIONS )
        Set the password for a user.

        OPTIONS is a list of key/value pairs. The following keys are recognized:

        user
            If present, this option contains the octet string representation of the user associated
            with the request. Depending on how users are identified in the directory this string may
            or may not be a DN according to RFC 4514.

            If this option is not present, the request acts up upon the password of the user
            currently associated with the LDAP session.

        oldpasswd
            This option, if present, must contain the current password of the user for whom this
            operation is performed.

            It depends on the server's implementation in which circumstances this option is allowed
            to be missing.

        newpasswd
            If present, this option contains the desired password for the user for whom the
            operation is performed.

            Depending on the server's implementation this option may be required by the LDAP server.

    gen_password ( )
        Return the password generated by the server in response to the "set_password()" call when
        applicable. The server will not generate a new password if "newpasswd" was passed to
        "set_password()".

        This method is a method of the [Net::LDAP::Message](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ALDAP%3A%3AMessage/markdown) response object returned in reply to
        "set_password()" in case the "set_password()" call succeeded.

        By this method the caller can query for the value of the password in case he did not call
        "set_password()" with the "newpasswd" option.

## SEE ALSO
    [Net::LDAP](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ALDAP/markdown), [Net::LDAP::Extension](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ALDAP%3A%3AExtension/markdown)

## AUTHOR
    Graham Barr <<gbarr@pobox.com>>, documentation by Peter Marschall <<peter@adpm.de>>.

    Please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to the perl-ldap mailing list
    <<perl-ldap@perl.org>>

## COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
    redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.