Script to Change users passwords in Windows NT 4.0

[kamire]

I would like to create a script which will be used by a person in helpdesk who is not an administrator to change users passwords when they get this problem. I have realised that I spend too much time doing this as opposed to more important tasks. Can someone help.

 

[wolluf]

The net user command would do this - though user would obviously need privileges to run it. If the helpdesk is a workstation, you could use psexec in a batch file (with username and new password as parameters) - this allows you to supply username/password credentials to run the job remotely on the server - though the password would be plain text in the batch file (part of pstools freeware from

http://www.sysinternals.com)

 

[kamire]

Yes Net user is doing this but I would like a scenario where the user is prompted for a name and thus something like this:

username:
password:

Please can someone advise on whether there is a script or something in the net which can do that.

 

[wolluf]

You could use choice.com in a batch file (you'd need to copy it from a win98 installation - or get it here

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steve-dunn/choice.com).

Get someone to write a little VB app?

 

[kamire]

I forgot that if I user net user I will not give the user a chance to change his password to something he will like