Set userPassword attribute in ADAM using LDAP+JNDI

[rcgram]

I am trying to set the attribute "userPassword" for an Organization Unit (OU). I have used SHA algorithm for encrypting the password.For example ,the encrypted password that i got is "TmmQPaHwGiohpiziJUKVGXgZX9k="

I am storing this encrypted password to the attribute "userPassword".


I am getting the following error :

Problem resetting password: javax.naming.directory.NoSuchAttributeException: [LDAP: error code 16 - 00000057: LdapErr: DSID-0C090B3D, comment: Error in attribute conversion operation, data 0, va28

Here is the functtion that i used for setting the password.
"Encrypt" is the function that returns the encrypted value of the password string.

Can anyone help me on this issue? or if there is any other easy way to set the UserPassword attribute?


Code:
public boolean setPassword(String orgUnit,String Pass) throws NamingException, NoSuchAlgorithmException
{
try
{
String newUnicodePassword=encrypt(Pass);
ModificationItem[] mods = new ModificationItem[1];
mods[0] = new ModificationItem(DirContext.REPLACE_ATTRIBUTE, new BasicAttribute("userPassword", newUnicodePassword));
System.out.println(mods[0]);
ctx.bind("ou=wipro,dc=example,dc=com",mods);
System.out.println("Set password & updated userccountControl");
return true;
}
catch (NamingException e) {
System.out.println("Problem resetting password: " + e);
}

catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
System.out.println("Problem encoding password: " + e);
}
return false;
}

[Hack]

Instead of resetting it can you flat out delete it and create a new one?