Here is what I am currently using in a batch file:

net user <username> <password>

my problem is that once in a while the password has special characters in it (like spaces, &, etc). It causes the command to set passwords different from what was intended. Is there a way to have such passwords using net user?

I had this problem too. I couldn't find a way around it either. In the end I had to make the passwords simpler.

I had this problem too. I couldn't find a way around it either. In the end I had to make the passwords simpler.

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I think my way around this is to write a c++ program instead of a batch file.

here is a special trick i just figured out:

net user <username> "<password>"

works like magik.

That works pretty much any time you need to type a parameter that has spaces in it.

Well I am not a big batch scripter, so help me out here. I know that when you call a program from a command line the OS sends the parameters as an array of strings to the program. So when I put quotes around ANYTHING at the command line, does the OS detect that and consider it one parameter, and hence the program itself receives it as one parameter? That would explain why I couldn't find ANY documentation regarding using quotes with the net user command.

Yeah, as far as I know quote behaviour is standard to the OS, so it should do that for everything.