13

Is it possible to add a user to the allowed rdp accounts from the commandline?

keyoke
  • 287
  • 1
  • 4
  • 12

1 Answers1

17

Sure, you can use the NET command:

NET LOCALGROUP "Remote Desktop Users" domain\jscott /ADD

This would add the domain user domian\jscott to the local group Remote Desktop Users. If you'd like to add a non-domain user, simply leave off the domain prefix:

NET LOCALGROUP "Remote Desktop Users" keyoke /ADD

This would add the local user keyoke to the local group Remote Desktop Users.

jscott
  • 24,484
  • 8
  • 79
  • 100
  • great if machine is not part of domain would I just use COMPUTER-NAME? – keyoke Mar 07 '12 at 11:55
  • See edits for adding local user. – jscott Mar 07 '12 at 11:59
  • ah crap... dont have sufficient permissions and cant remember my admin password – keyoke Mar 07 '12 at 12:02
  • @keyoke Have a [quick search of related questions](http://serverfault.com/search?q=reset+admin+password+windows&submit=search), it's not much work to reset the local administrator's password on Windows. – jscott Mar 08 '12 at 00:19
  • You may need to set Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server:fDenyTSConnections to 0 in addition if RDP isn't enabled on the machine – Rahul Misra Oct 29 '20 at 10:04