Setting password in user profile through Run Script

[anirban300]

I am going to my profile and setting the password as "password" then when I am viewing my xml then the password is shown as "$s$kq6j5hcn7xyo4xPygKRZZHt3HSBVoCzOi9vEI43c05Y=$ZC3uHQbZGeKWaWr+3aMs59+0KzAhlfY0eS3KS03Ongw="

Now suppose I am setting my password as "Xyh4g" through run script and I am viewing xml then the password is "Xyh4g".

Now the problem is that when I am trying to log in through username and password="Xyh4g" then I am not able to login,it is showing wrong username or password.Please help how can I set password through script?

[christopheriron · Accepted solution]

Hi Anirban,

If you're setting a password through a script you need to use setDisplayValue('Xyh4g'). Otherwise you are setting the post-encrypted password.

Thanks

[anirban300]

Hii Chris

I am using the below code in Run Script and getDisplayValue is not working.Can you help

      var text = "";

      var possible = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";

      for( var i=0; i < 8; i++ )

              text += possible.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * possible.length));

      workflow.scratchpad.a= text;

      var password= text;

var req_for=current.variables.req_for;

var gr=new GlideRecord('sys_user');

gr.addQuery("sys_id",req_for);

gr.query();

if(gr.next())

{

gr.user_password=password;

gr.password_needs_reset='true';

gr.update();

}

Re: Setting password in user profile through Run Script

[christopheriron]

Hi Anirban,

The below show work now.

  var text = "";

      var possible = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";

      for( var i=0; i < 8; i++ )

              text += possible.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * possible.length));

      workflow.scratchpad.a= text;

      var password= text;

var req_for=current.variables.req_for;

var gr=new GlideRecord('sys_user');

gr.addQuery("sys_id",req_for);

gr.query();

if(gr.next())

{

gr.setDisplayValue('user_password', password);

gr.password_needs_reset='true';

gr.update();

}

Kind Regards

[anirban300]

It worked with gr.user_password.setDisplayValue(password);.Thank you for the information