Adding a user

[ilkhan]

Is there anyway to add an admin user account, with password, through the command line or registry?

Doubt it, but wondering.

 

[saxy_simon]

'net user' contains some of what you want. Type 'net user /help' for instructions.
in particular "net user $username $password /add" will do the job (if you put the password as * you'll be prompted or it, which is more secure, since the passwords not listed in your command history)
This adds a user, to turn them into an admin you need to add them to the administrators group. This is done by "net localgroup administrators $username /add"

 

[djnes]

'net user' contains some of what you want. Type 'net user /help' for instructions.
in particular "net user $username $password /add" will do the job (if you put the password as * you'll be prompted or it, which is more secure, since the passwords not listed in your command history)
This adds a user, to turn them into an admin you need to add them to the administrators group. This is done by "net localgroup administrators $username /add"

That should work, and that's a great idea to prompt yourself for the password, rather than have it displayed in the run box history.

 

[ilkhan]

thanks.
could that be put into batch file?
Im thinking yes. but wanted to check.

 

[Phoenix86]

If you can run it from a command prompt, it will run in a batch file 99.9999% of the time.

 

[ilkhan]

sweet!
Thanks guys.
[H] always comes through.

is there an enviroment variable (like %windir%) that refers to the root drive of file is calling it?
Like if I wanted to open an explorer window of a USB drive that wont always be the same drive letter.

 

[saxy_simon]

The path '\' refers to the drive root
like 'cd \'

 

[ilkhan]

useful to know. thanks.