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ChangePW updated

by @ 7:41 pm on 6/26/2006. Filed under updates

A couple of years ago a friend asked me to add the ability to do an actual password change instead of a password set in the ChangePW utility. I made a quick change for him and sent it off as it needed it quickly. I planned on going back and updating the usage/help and the web site and upload the new version but forgot.

This evening I saw that someone asked for this capability from the command line in the newsgroups and everyone was giving advice on how to SET a password instead of how to CHANGE a password. I modified the usage really quick and then updated the website to make it available. You can get it here

http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/changepw.htm

F:\DEV\cpp\changepw>changepw /d:test /u:someuser /o:oldpass /p:newpass

ChangePW V02.03.00cpp  Joe Richards (joe@joeware.net) June 2006

CHANGE-ing instead of SET-ing password…
Command completed successfully. 

 

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2 Responses to “ChangePW updated”

  1. Steve Kelly says:

    Joe,

    Can you explain the difference? Does a set ignore things like history or is that change?

    Thanks,

    Steve

  2. joe says:

    Hi Steve:

    I have actually gotten several folks asking about this as well as some folks in the newsgroups so I will write up a separate post.

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