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| Manage users with Cusrmgr.exe |
| You probably do most of your user management with either the Active Directory Users And |
| Computers console (domain accounts) or the Local Users And Groups console (local accounts). |
| These consoles will generally do most of what you need to do, but sometimes it's handy to be able to |
| manage users from a command prompt. For example, you might want to accomplish user |
| management tasks in a batch file. Or, maybe you just want another option for remote user |
| management. Whatever the case, you can use the Cusrmgr.exe tool included with the Windows |
| 2000 Resource Kit to manage users, both locally and across the network. |
| http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/1393.asp |
| Cusrmgr provides lots of options you can use to accomplish user management tasks. For example, |
| you can rename or delete accounts. You can also rename local or global groups and add/remove |
| users in those groups. You can also set several user account properties such as comment, full name, |
| and user profile settings. |
| One particularly good use for Cusrmgr is changing an account's password. You can specify a |
| password for an account or use the -p switch with the command to create a random password. Here's |
| an example that would set a random password for the administrator account on a computer named |
| server1 (this naturally assumes there's at least one other account with administrator privileges on |
| the server/domain that you can use for managing the server): |
| Cusrmgr.exe -u administrator \\server1 -p -m |
| Here's an example that would set the password for the account jboyce to framistat9: |
| Cusrmgr.exe -u jboyce \\server1 -P framistat9 |
| Note that the first example uses a lowercase p, while the second example uses an uppercase P. |
| These are actually two different switches. For more information on the switches available with |
| Cusrmgr, check out the Resource Kit documentation or execute cusrmgr /? at a command prompt. |
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