Has anyone been able to change a local account password ? I need to be able to change the local administrator account for aduit reasons. I thought the best approach would be via the logon script. Has any one been able to do this ?
Registered: 2006-08-16
Posts: 687
Loc: Maryland, USA
Login script is a bad idea. Hopefully your local users don't have administrator rights? Anyway, you can do that through group policy preferences. See GPP for local adminsitrator password change
Registered: 2006-08-16
Posts: 687
Loc: Maryland, USA
Not a bad since none of us know everything. My first thought was a system startup script. I did a quick search on the Internet and found many hits. One was a script in the technet "Hey scripting guy" series. I then saw the above. That seemed faster and more reliable.
(Although I do know a few people that think they know everything.)
I use an admin script that runs every 2 hours looking for new computers. It will change the local admin password every month and record the transaction to a file.
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Registered: 2006-08-16
Posts: 687
Loc: Maryland, USA
Les, just curious, but is the password you send encrypted, or clear text. I couldn't tell from the scripting guy web page whether the password was clear text or encrypted.
