Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:34:04 -0500 From: Alan Dobkin To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: RE: Take 2: Testers for new ssh-*-config scripts wanted! Message-ID: <683451843.1067895244@[192.168.70.4]> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-OmniComp-MailScanner-Information: Protected by MailScanner at OmniComp.org X-OmniComp-MailScanner: Found to be clean I use Dave Roth's perl module for more complex user flag settings, but the hands down easiest way to do this is with the NET command: NET USER username /EXPIRES:NEVER This command is built-in on all Windows NT/2K/XP systems. For more details see NET HELP USER. Alan --On Monday, November 03, 2003 4:05 PM -0600 "DePriest, Jason R." wrote: >> Does anybody know how I can set "Password never expires" >> from the command line? > > Corinna, > > User Accounts have a USER_FLAGS attribute that can be any combination of > a couple of values. One of these can be UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWORD. If it > is present, the password never expires. > > I typically manipulate it using Dave Roth's Win32::AdminMisc perl module > (UserGetMiscAttributes and UserSetMiscAttributes)... which is likely > beyond the scope of what you want this script to do. > > The CREATEUSERS.VBS script from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit > (Supplement 1) looks promising. I haven't used it, but the code seems > capable of specifying the UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWORD option. > I would attach the .vbs file (as a .txt file), but it is copyrighted by > Microsoft. If anyone knows if emailing it would be "bad" or not, let me > know. > > -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/