Re: Administrator Passord

From: Torgeir Bakken (Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com)
Date: 09/11/02 

From: Torgeir Bakken <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:21:49 +0200

Thane wrote:

> We would like to change the Administrator password on the
> Windows 2000 PC's. I have seen it been done with scripts
> before and I'd like to know if anyone knows how to do it.
> We are running a Domain and can it be done with logon
> scripts. Thanks for your help.

If your users are not local admins, this is not possible to do from a login
script (unless you buy 3rd party RunAs solutions).

In that case, you can connect to the computers remotely. Here are some
alternatives (all is command line except 7):

1)
Changepw from http://www.joeware.net
(set passwords on accounts on remote domains or machines)
http://home.earthlink.net/~joewarenet/win32/zips/Changepw.zip

2)
CryptPwd.exe (local and remote)
http://www.jsiinc.com/dl/cryptpwd.zip
http://www.jsiinc.com/suba/tip0300/rh0349.htm

3)
"A better method for changing the local Administrator password on all your
workstations, without traveling"
Tip 2501 at http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm

4)
NETUSER.EXE by Matt Bobowski (local and remote)
http://www.jsiinc.com/dl/NETUSER.EXE

5)
CUsrMgr.exe, in MS Resource Kit (local and remote)

6)
You can use the "NET USER" command:
To change the password to be 'newpw' on an existing user 'administrator':

net user administrator newpw

combine it with the free psexec.exe to remotely change the password:

PsExec
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml

7)
DCPC (DC PasswordChanger, free, looks like it has a GUI)
http://www.danish-company.com/
  (look under Tools) 

--
torgeir

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