And the user is created, but the /expires:never part gets ignored. It seems
to get ignored when I use this at the command line too, so maybe it is a
WinXP problem, but I figure this is the place to get that answer too.
Assuming I can't use NET USER, is there an easy way to do this? I don't
really want to get into all the crazy code of WMI. I only need to create a
few users on a few machines, so I am only looking at saving a few minutes of
time at most, making it not worth the time to write and test the WMI stuff.
I was hoping Shell.Run would work, but perhaps not.

Best,
Gordon

/expires:never sets the *account* to never expire (that is the default anyway),
but I guess you want to set the "Password never expires" flag?. If that is the
case:

Tip 570 at for a freeware command line tool (NETUSER.EXE):
http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm

This should then do it:

net user jeanette /ADD password:Adm1n
NETUSER.EXE jeanette /pwnexp:y

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