Change local user account password with verification - Windows
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Important Notes

  • You must enter a password in order to take an action
  • Because of the way secure parameters work, you cannot use this task in a baseline, target an action dynamically by property (e.g., automatic groups), use add additional actions.

Property Details

ID6076
StatusBeta - Preliminary testing ready for more
TitleChange local user account password with verification - Windows
DomainBESC
CategoryAccounts
Download Size0
SourceInternal
Source IDjbt8@psu.edu
Source Release Date5/3/2013 12:00:00 AM
Keywordspassword secure parameters verification
Added by on 5/15/2015 6:54:17 AM
Last Modified by on 5/15/2015 6:54:17 AM
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isWindows (Relevance 1172)
Used in 1152 fixlets and 538 analyses   * Results in a true/false
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windows of operating system
Used in 77 fixlets and 6 analyses   * Results in a true/false
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version of client >= "9.0"

Actions

Action 1 (default)

Action Link Change  specified local user account password.
Script Type BigFix Action Script
action parameter query "username" with description "Please specify the name of an existing local user account"

waithidden "C:\Windows\System32\net.exe" user {parameter "username" of action} {parameter "secret" of action}

continue if {exit code of action = 0}
Success Criteria

This action will be considered successful when all lines of the action script have completed successfully.

Action 2

Action Link Click here to review this task in the bigfix.me Content Database.
Script Type URL
http://bigfix.me/cdb/fixlet/3670
    

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tristangabrielle_inlayo -
Hello @TJAdmin, We tried your Fixlet thru WebUI but unfortunately its not showing the option to enter the Local USername
TJAdmin -
Thanks for this post. One note, the line in the script that reads if (theSecret==null || theSecret=="" || theSecret<>theSecret2) Should read if (theSecret==null || theSecret=="" || theSecret!==theSecret2)
brolly33 -
variation of http://bigfix.me/fixlet/details/3670