Windows изменение пароля из командной строки

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on September 11, 2011

net user  loginid  newpassword

net user  John  pq12d*12@

C\>net user John *
Type a password for the user:
Retype the password to confirm:
The command completed successfully.

net  user  loginid  *  /domain

System error 1355 has occurred.
The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.

Если возникла необходимость изменить пароль от локальной учетной записи Windows 10, вы можете воспользоваться командной строкой, а наше руководство в этом поможет.

Когда есть подозрение, что ваш пароль был взломан или используется довольно слабый, рекомендуется заменить пароль от Windows 10 на другой, который сложно угадать.

Если вы работаете без учетной записи Microsoft, есть простой и быстрый метод изменить пароль, через командную строку.

Изменение пароля учетной локальной учетной записи Windows 10 с помощью командной строки

Найдите командную строку (cmd) через поиск, или в меню «Пуск» зайдя в папку «Служебные — Windows» и обязательно запустите от «Имени администратора«.

Используйте команду расположенную ниже и нажмите «Enter» для отображения всех учетных записей.

net user

Введите еще одну команду:

net user ИМЯ ВАШЕЙ УЧЕТНОЙ ЗАПИСИ *

Примечание. Обязательно замените «ИМЯ ВАШЕЙ УЧЕТНОЙ ЗАПИСИ«, на ту, у которой хотите изменить пароль.

Введите пароль для пользователя и нажмите «Enter«. (Ввод пароля будет происходить в скрытом режиме).

Повторите ввод пароля для подтверждения и сделайте тоже самое.

Чтобы начать использовать новый пароль, выйдите из своей учетной записи Windows 10 и снова войдите в систему.

Хотя данное руководство написано для Windows 10, но инструкция должна работать в операционной системе Windows 8 и Windows 7.

The Net User command is a Windows command-line utility that allows you to manage Windows server local user accounts or on a remote computer.

The command Net User allow you to create, delete, enable, or disable users on the system and set passwords for the net user accounts.

Windows administrators can perform add or modifications in domain user accounts using the net user command-line tool.

You can get net user account information, enable or disable a user account, sets the home directory path, set account expiration, and so on.

In this article, we will discuss how to use the net user command-line tool with examples to get user account information, domain account status, and password expiry date.

Net User Command Syntax

The basic syntax for the net user command is as follows:

net user [<UserName> {<Password> | *} [<Options>]] [/domain]
net user [<UserName> {<Password> | *} /add [<Options>] [/domain]]
net user [<UserName> [/delete] [/domain]]

Refer to the below most important net user command parameters:

Refer to the following table to know more about options used in net user command.

Net User – List All User Accounts

Use the Net User command and run it on the Windows command prompt without any parameter to list all user accounts on the local user account.

Open a command prompt to run the net user command below

net user

The above Windows net user command returns the list of all user accounts on the local computer.

You can also use the net users command without any parameters on the cmd to retrieve a list of all user accounts on your computer.

Run the command net user on the domain controller to get a list of all users on the domain.

net user

The output of the above command net user gets the domain username accounts.

You can also use the net user command-line tool to get user account information, modify a user account, and check when the password was last set.

Net User Account – Display User Account Information

Run the net user command in the command line to get user account information.

# Get the user account information for Toms user.
net user Toms

The above net user command uses the username to retrieve user details and display net user account information below

C:\>net user Toms
User name                    Toms
Full Name                    John Paul
Comment                      Built-in account for administering the computer/domain
User's comment
Country/region code          000 (System Default)
Account active               Yes
Account expires              Never

Password last set            7/29/2021 6:55:50 PM
Password expires             9/9/2021 6:55:50 PM
Password changeable          7/30/2021 6:55:50 PM
Password required            Yes
User may change password     Yes

Workstations allowed         All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon                   8/2/2021 11:53:32 AM

Logon hours allowed          All

Local Group Memberships      *Administrators
Global Group memberships     *Domain Admins        *Group Policy Creator
                             *Schema Admins        *Domain Users
                             *Enterprise Admins
The command completed successfully.


C:\>

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Net User Add Account

To create a new local user account, use the /Add parameter and specify the desired username:

# Create a new user account on local computer with login name Teresa
net user /Add Teresa

To create a domain user account, add the /domain parameter and specify the username and password:

# Create a new user account on domain with login name Peter and password Shell@123
net user /Add /domain Peter Shell@123

The above command creates a user account on the domain with a username Peter and password as Shell@123 as plain text in the command line.

Another option to specify the password is using the * in the command after the username, it will show a prompt to enter the password.

net user /Add /domain Peter *

Net User Delete User Account

To delete a local user account, use the /delete parameter and specify the username, it will delete the user account. It doesn’t ask for confirmation before deleting a user account.

# Delete the user on the local computer
net user /delete Teresa

To delete a domain user account, add the /domain parameter and specify the username.

# Delete the domain user account
net user /delete /domain Peter

Net User Password Change for User Account

If you want to change a user password using the command line, use the net user command-line tool to set the password.

The syntax for the command net user to set a password for a user account is given below:

net user userid password

Let’s consider an example to reset the password for user account GaryW on the local computer, run the below command

net user garyw Test@123

In the above net user command, garyw is a user account id and Test@123 is a password that is used with the command to set the password for the user account on the local computer.

The output of the above command as below

Note: Run Windows command prompt using administrator account privileges else it will display “System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied“

There is an alternative and secure way to change the user password using the net user cmd tool as below

C:\>net user garyw *
Type a password for the user:
Retype the password to confirm:
The command completed successfully.

In the command, use * after the user name and hit enter.

It will prompt you to type the password for the user: and retype the password to confirm.

While typing a password, it won’t display password text on the command line.

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Net User /domain – change domain user account password

Using the net user Windows command-line tool, you can set the password for the domain user account.

The syntax for the command net user to set the password for the domain user account is:

net user username /domain

Run the following command to reset the domain user account password

net user garyw  * /domain

In the above command, the net user command takes the user id as input, * indicates to prompt for the password. /domain specifies to perform domain account password change operation.

The output of the above net user /domain password change as below

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Net User Disable Account

To disable or lock a domain account using the net user command-line tool, use the /Active:No and /domain parameters and specify the username:

# Disable the user account on domain
net user garyw /Active:No /domain

The above net user command disables the user account or locks the domain user account specified using the user name and /Active set to No in the net user /domain command.

Run the command net user garyw /domain to check the user’s account status, it displays Account active : No

C:\>net user garyw /domain
User name                    garyw
Full Name                    Gary Willy
Comment
User's comment
Country/region code          000 (System Default)
Account active               No
Account expires              Never

To disable a local user account, use the /Active:No parameter:

# Disable local user account
net user testadmin /Active:No 

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Net User to Enable Domain Account

To enable or unlock the domain user account using the net user command, use the /Active:Yes and /domain parameters and specify the username:

# Enables domain user account
net user garyw /Active:Yes /domain

net user /domain command using /Active option set to Yes enables user account.

To enable a local user account, use the /Active:Yes parameter and specify the username:

net user testadmin /Active:Yes

Net User User Password Policy

If you want users to restrict them to change their domain account password or allow domain account user to change their password, use the /Passwordchg:No parameter and specify the username:

net user garyw /Passwordchg:No

In the above net user command, /Passwordchg:No prevents the user from changing the password.

To allow users to change the password, use the /Passwordchg:Yes and specify the username:

net user garyw /Passwordchg:Yes

The above command, /Passwordchg:Yes allows the user to change their password.

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Net User to Find User Full Name

You can use the net user command-line tool to find the user’s full name in the domain using the Find /i parameter and specify the “full name” :

net user garyw /domain | Find /i "full name"

The above command finds the full name of the user in the domain, it uses the username /domain to find the user account in the domain and pipes the result to get the full name.

C:\Windows\system32>net user garyw /domain | Find /i "full name"
Full Name                    Gary Willy

Set Home Directory Path For User

Use the net user command-line tool to set a home directory path for a new user or existing user using the homedir option as below

Set the home directory path for the new user:

# Set the home directory path for user adams
net user adams /domain /add /homedir:C:\users\adams

In the above command, the net user creates a new user with the name adams in the domain and set up the home directory path for the user to C:\users\adams

You can set up a home directory for the existing user as below

# Set the home directory path for existing user garyw
net user garyw /domain /homedir:C:\users\garyw

In the above command, it set up the home directory path for the existing user in the domain using the net user command and homdir option.

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Set Expiry date for User Account on Local and Domain

The expiration date for the user account has been good practice for organizations to manage security and resource management.

Using the net user command, you can easily set an expiry date for the user account on the local computer or domain user account.

To set up an expiry date for user accounts on the local computer or a Windows 11 user account, use the /expires parameter and specify the date in MM/DD/YYYY format:

# Set expire date for local user account
Net User devadmin /expires:03/05/2023

In the above command, the net user command takes the username as the input parameter and uses /expires option to set up the expiry date for the user account on the local computer.

If you want to set up an expiry date for the user account on the domain controller, run the following command.

# Set expire date for domain user account
Net User Toms /domain /expires:09/20/2022

In the above command, the net user takes the user name and uses /domain to set up an expiry date in the domain using /expires option.

Set Login Times for User Account

Using the net user command, you can set log in times for the user account to allow them to be used within specific hours only. Use the /time parameter followed by the allowed login times.

Run the following command to set login times for the user account on the local computer.

# Set login time to allow user login in specific duration
Net User Toms /time:M-F,07:00-16:00

In the above command, the net user command takes the user name to set up login time for the account to allow login between 7 am to 4 pm on Monday-Friday only.

For domain user accounts, add the /domain parameter:

# Set login time to allow user login in specific duration on the domain
Net User garyw /time:M-F,07:00-16:00 /domain

Net User Command Examples and FAQ

Conclusion

I hope the above article on the net user command line tool in the Windows system helps you to understand how to manage net user accounts using the command line.

net user without any option gets all the user accounts on the computer. You can also use the net users command to manage the user accounts on the local and domain controller.

You can find more topics about PowerShell Active Directory commands and PowerShell basics on the ShellGeek home page.