Would you like to learn how to change a local user password using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to set the password of a local user account on a computer running Windows.
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
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Tutorial Powershell – Changing a local user password
As an Administrator, start an elevated Powershell command-line.
List the local user accounts.
Here is the command output:
Request the username and the new password.
Enter the requested information.
Change the password of a local user account.
Optionally, prompt for a username and a password using the command line.
Change the password using a plain text password.
In our example, we configured the password of a local account named GOHAN.
The following password was set to this user account: 123QWE@@.
Congratulations! You are able to change a local user password using Powershell.
