Question

I am a college student taking an INTRODUCTORY Windows 10 operating system SCRIPTING course and need some help with creating this batch script.  

I need to create the below menu:

Please choose a task from the list below

A) Add a new user account

I need to use the SET /P command to add a new user and prompt for a login name. Check if the user already exists and if so display an appropriate message and return to the menu.

If the user doesn't already exist, prompt for the user's password and full name and add the user. If the user account is added, display a message (one that includes the user's login name) that indicates the user was successfully added.

Thanks.

Answer 1

To add a new user account on the local computer:

net user username password /ADD

Example: To add a new user account with the loginid John and with password fadf24as

net user Andola blabla123/ADD

Hide password

If you do not want the password to be visible while adding new user account, you can use ‘*’ as shown below.

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

To add a new user account to the domain:

net user username password /ADD /DOMAIN

Note that the command does not include the domain name.

Example:

net user Andola blabla123 /ADD /DOMAIN

Rename a user account

Net use command does not have any switches to rename a user account. But we can do that using wmic commands. Please check this – Rename user accounts on Windows

Few more Advanced uses of net user command.

To set user full name while creating the user account

net user username password /ADD /FULLNAME:"User_Fullname"

To allow user to change password:

net user username password /ADD /PASSWORDCHG:Yes

To restrict user not to change the password:

net user username userpasswd /ADD /PASSWORDCHG:NO

To set account expiry time we can use /EXPIRES switch. This can also be used to set that the account never expires.

To specify if the user must have a password set we can use /PASSWORDREQ switch. For more information on all net user options, read this – Net user command: syntax and examples

How to create a new administrator account?

An administrator account can’t be created directly. We first need to create a user account and then add the user to the administrators group.

Errors:

1. If you don’t have privileges to add new user account to the system, you would get an error like below.

   C:\>net user John /add
   System error 5 has occurred.
   Access is denied.
   C:\>

2. While adding user to domain, make sure that your computer is connected to the domain. Otherwise it throws up below error.

   C:\>net user testuser testpassword /ADD /DOMAIN
   The request will be processed at a domain controller for domain mydomain.com.
   System error 1355 has occurred.
   The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.