Comments on: Create a Local Windows User Account [C#/.NET]

By: jack

jack — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:32:43 +0000

brilliant help

By: Lunkan

Lunkan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:55:17 +0000

Regarding the new user not showing up in the “Users Tab” in the control panel. This is because the user does not belong to any groups. Don’t fret this is easily accomplished. Using Marks Code here:

PrincipalContext pc = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Machine);
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal u = new UserPrincipal(pc);
u.SetPassword(password);
u.Name = username;
u.Description = description;
u.UserCannotChangePassword = true;
u.PasswordNeverExpires = true;
u.Save();

Now to add this user to the “Users” group so the new entry shows up under users do this:

GroupPrincipal gPc = GroupPrincipal.FindByIdentity(pc, “Users”);
gPc.Members.Add(u);
gPc.Save();

Voila now the user shows up in the control panel.

By: Aditya Bhave

Aditya Bhave — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:03:00 +0000

The new account with Dan’s code does not come up in User Accounts in Control Panel. How can it be done?

By: fouine

fouine — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:47:38 +0000

dtp,
Before posting on a forum, just make sure you know what you are talking about which is obviously not the case, otherwise you would know that “\” is equivalent to @”\”

By: MD

MD — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:30:46 +0000

Brilliant Mark, absolutely brilliant. Using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement really simplifies the process. Thanks for the code… I just had to put quotes on the username, description and password.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:35:27 +0000

Looks like the System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace is only available in .Net 3.5.

Dan’s CreateLocalUser method looks like pretty good option for non .Net 3.5 users.

By: Mark Lambert

Mark Lambert — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:09:59 +0000

or you can use
using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement;

then it is even more straight forward.

By: dtp

dtp — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:37:13 +0000

Also windows paths in C# need to have the backslashes escaped as in C:\WINNT\…