Changing a reg setting w/o AD

[kenestep]

Hello,

Just so everyone knows, I ate the RED pill, so sorry if this is really easy and I'm asking stupid questions. But, I have an eDirectory environment with the Netware Client installed. Currently I have the users local account set so they can not change their password. I would like to change that w/o going to each and every machine. I though of using a product that captures a snapshot of the current reg and then change the setting and send that changed reg setting to everyone else. But its not working. Can any one help ? Point me in the right direction ?

Edited January 6, 2011 by kenestep

[allen2]

If you can launch a batch script from login script, you should be able to do it quite easily if of course the local windows account (launching the script) has enough rights.

net user "local windows account to modify" /passwordchg:yes

If the local windows account launching the login script doesn't have enough rights, you might be able to do it from a remote workstation with psexec (from sysinternals) (will work only if server service is working and open on the clients computers) or you'll have to make a more complex script with runas to get elevated privileges.