Add local user with administrator rights and to be disabled in a week

Question

I am preparing my pc lab for a workshop which will take two days.

I have been told to create local administrator accounts for each computer.

It is possible to add a user "workshop" with password "123456" usin NET command.

net user workshop 123456 /add
net localgroup "Administrators" "workshop" /add

But I need more. I need the user should be disabled after three days. What should be the command line like?

Solution

I think it can be done step by step:

1) Create user:

net user workshop 123456 /add

2) Add user to "Administrators" group:

net localgroup "Administrators" "workshop" /add

3) Set expiration date:

net user workshop /expires:27.02.2016

This looks OK.

Comments

[Smeerpijp]

It's your lab PC, why cant you just log-in after three days and disable the accounts?

[Jonno]

Bear in mind even if there is a way, they could easily undo that, create another account, get in to your main account etc. I'm not sure it would stop much.

[Özkan ÖZLÜ]

@Jonno, thank you for your advise. The guests will not harm the computer I guess.

[Frank Thomas]

Just remember, by making them admin, they can change their expiration time for workstation accounts.

[Özkan ÖZLÜ]

@FrankThomas you are right. Maybe I should change the group. More powerful than limited user, but less authorized than administrator.