Re: RE: Net user add & password expiration


You forgot the password

/expires:never is for account expiration, NOT password expiration

See tip 0570 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com

net user /ADD "newuser" "Pass phrase" /passwordchg:no
netuser "user" /pwnexp:y

net user newlocaluser
User name newuser
Full Name
Comment
User's comment
Country code 000 (System Default)
Account active Yes
Account expires Never

Password last set 04/26/2006 11:59
Password expires Never
Password changeable 04/27/2006 11:59
Password required Yes
User may change password No

Workstations allowed All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon Never

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *Users
Global Group memberships *None
The command completed successfully.


On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:22:01 -0700, Guilhem <Guilhem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry I eat some words...

We are working on a script for Windows 2003 server in standalone. We wanted
to add a user locally with the password expiration to never and no possiblity
to modify its password.
The following command is used:
net user /ADD "user" /expires:never /passwordchg:no

This command works on windows 2000 and NT but not on windows 2003. we did
not find any other options.

can somebody help us ?
Thanks in advance

Guilhem

"Guilhem" wrote:

Hello,

We are working on a script for Windows 2003 server in standalone. We wanted
to add a user locally with the password expiration to never and no possiblity
to modify its password.
The following command is used:
net user /ADD "user" /expires:never /passwordchg:no

This command works on windows 2000 and NT but not on windows 2003. We have


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com
.

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