Changing Service account password

[Jeff]

Does anyone have any tips or know of a script or tool that would make this
easy to do for a bunch of machines that use a domain account to run a
service?
thanks
Jeff

 

[Shain Wray]

Hello Jeff,

Yes, you can do this with a tool called SC.exe. This comes with WS2003 or
is on the Resource Kit for Win2k. Here is the command you would use -

sc config <servicename> obj= "domain\user" password= "password"

Make sure you put the spaces between the equal sign and the quotation mark
for both obj= and password=.

For example -

sc config eventlog obj= "testdomain\testuser" password= "testpassword"

You should get the following return if it succeeded -
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

Reference KB -

166819 Using Sc.exe and Netsvc.exe to Control Services Remotely
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=166819

Best regards,
--
Shain Wray
Microsoft PSS Security Team

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