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How would I go about making an Administrator account (read not limited) from the command line in Windows? I have seen commands to the effect of:
net user USERNAME PASSWORD /add
However it is unclear if an account created in this way would be an admin account or a limited account.
Steven Penny
Posted 2012-12-05T15:47:47.763
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You are on the right track - It takes two CMD line options to do this
First -
net user /add [username] [password]
This creates the user account.
net localgroup administrators [username] /add
This adds the user to the Local Administrators Group
You have to execute both commands with elevated permissions (an administrative CMD prompt)
Chris E. Avis
Posted 2012-12-05T15:47:47.763
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9If your windows is not in English, you will have to translate "administrators" to your local language. You can type "net localgroup" to check the list of groups and see how it is called on your computer. – personne3000 – 2014-06-22T09:53:20.257
1And what if you want to set "Password never expires" flag for the currently created user? How could you do that? – Saeed Neamati – 2014-08-12T07:34:31.623
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Switches for net user are here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251394
– user36350 – 2014-12-26T17:35:47.080@personne3000 for example:
net localgroup | find /i "admin"(for latin alphabet) – Matthieu – 2019-10-23T15:55:17.257