Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: implement win32 guest-set-user-password

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 04:37:13PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Use NetUserSetInfo() to set the user password.
> 
> This function is notoriously known to be problematic for users with EFS
> encrypted files. But the alternative, NetUserChangePassword() requires
> the old password. Nevertheless, The EFS file should be recovered by
> changing back to the old password.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
> ---
>  configure            |  2 +-
>  qga/commands-win32.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>


For reference, I compared with MS recommendations here

  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/151546

and this looks correct for way to administratively change passwords
without knowing the original password.

Regards,
Daniel
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