programaticly managing local users/groups

[Red Squirrel]

Anyone know any good ways to programaticly delete users/groups in windows 2k/xp? I'm guessing the SAM DB is part file part registry, and cannot be altered while windows is running, so wondering if there are built in ways in windows to access it, like commands or something.

 

[hans007]

i know theres plenty of API for finding out user security tokens and such. i am not sure i fyou can say create a new user, but i would figure there probably is a way if you had local system priviledge. i'd google this or check msdn if i were you.

 

[yinan]

You can also use WMI.

 

[KB]

I have used VBscript to do this in the past. It is as easy as:

Deleting a User from a Local Group

Removes kenmyer from the local Administrators group on a computer named MyComputer.

strComputer = "MyComputer"
Set objGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Adminstrators,group")
Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/kenmyer,user")

objGroup.Remove(objUser.ADsPath)

More sample scripts at this website: http://www.activexperts.com/ac...ersgroups/localgroups/

 

[Red Squirrel]

Found some stuff thats very useful. Functions NetUserDel, NetUserEnum etc... Have to include a library but it came with devcpp so got lucky there.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: KB
I have used VBscript to do this in the past. It is as easy as:

Deleting a User from a Local Group

Removes kenmyer from the local Administrators group on a computer named MyComputer.

strComputer = "MyComputer"
Set objGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Adminstrators,group")
Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/kenmyer,user")

objGroup.Remove(objUser.ADsPath)

More sample scripts at this website: http://www.activexperts.com/ac...ersgroups/localgroups/

I find that rather useful. Thanks!