[gptalk] Re: Creating a local admin account
- From: "Bean, Scott" <Scott.Bean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:32:36 -0500
This should work. Works on w2k3 (but should work on xp and 2000). On vista it
only adds the user but doesn't add them to the administrator group. Also sets
the password to never expire. Copy and paste into notepad and save as .vbs
On Error Resume Next
Const ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD = &h10000
'Input Box
strComputer = InputBox("Enter Computer Name or IP address")
If strComputer = "" Then
WScript.Quit
End If
strUser= InputBox("Enter a User Name")
If strUser = "" Then
WScript.Quit
End If
strPassword = InputBox("Enter a Password")
If strPassword = "" Then
WScript.Quit
End If
'Creating User
Set colAccounts = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer)
Set objUser = colAccounts.Create("user", strUser)
objUser.SetPassword strPassword
objUser.SetInfo
'Set Password to never expire
Set objUser=GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/" & strUser & ",User")
objPasswordExpirationFlag = objUserFlags OR
ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD
objUser.Put "userFlags", objPasswordExpirationFlag
objUser.SetInfo
'Add user to Local Admin Group
Set objGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Administrators")
objGroup.Add(objUser.ADsPath)
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:52 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Creating a local admin account
Ian-
If you have GP Preferences in place, you can use GP directly to do that with
the local users and groups feature-you don't even need a script. However, if
you don't, then, assuming how many machines you have, I would just do this
remotely using a tool like PSExec and some simple command lines, like this:
net user joesmith password /add
net localgroup administrators joesmith /add
Darren
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dowdle, Ian
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:20 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Creating a local admin account
I am not sure that this is the correct forum for this but here goes. Does
anyone have a vbs script that will create a local user account and add that
user to the local administrators group? Scripting is not my strong point!
Regards,
Ian Dowdle
PC Operations Manager
School of Computing
University of Teesside
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