Changing Passwords

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From: Pete (pete_howarth_at_adp.com)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:33:30 -0700

I know that a member of the administrators group can
change their password from the command line. But can a
user that is remote desktopped into a Windows 2003 Server
Terminal Services machine change their password? If so,
how do they do it?

Pete

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