Creating, Changing, and Deleting Users and Groups
Creating users and groups is a simple process. All you need to do is
create a dictionary with the information for the user and call
win32net.NetUserAdd() or
win32net.NetGroupAdd(). Depending on the
information you need to set for the user, the information level can
be 1, 2, or 3, corresponding to PyGROUP_INFO_1,
PyGROUP_INFO_2, and
PyGROUP_INFO_3 respectively. Refer to Appendix B for the dictionary elements in these
information levels.
win32net.NetUserAdd(server,level,data)
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server The name of the server to execute on or
Nonefor the current machine.-
level The level of information provided in the data parameter.
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data A dictionary with data corresponding to the level.
The simplest way to start is to create a dictionary corresponding to information level 1. Some of the attributes are optional. You can create a new user with the following code:
>>> d={}
>>> d['name'] = "PythonTestUser"
>>> d['password'] = "Top Secret"
>>> d['comment'] = "A user created by some Python demo code"
>>> d['flags'] = win32netcon.UF_NORMAL_ACCOUNT | win32netcon.UF_SCRIPT
>>> d['priv'] = win32netcon.USER_PRIV_USER
>>> win32net.NetUserAdd(None, 1, d)
>>>Most of the attributes are self-explanatory. The
flags attribute specifies the type of account to
create. The Win32 documentation states that the use of the
UF_SCRIPT flag is necessary. The
priv attribute controls the privileges of the new
user; you are creating a normal user. See Appendix B for more details on ...