{"id":99205,"date":"2018-07-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=99205"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:40:12","slug":"20180710-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180710-00\/?p=99205\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I change the password of another user without having to sign in as them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick trick: You are signed in as yourself, but you need to change the password for another account, say, a service account. You could change the account by doing this: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add the account to your machine.<\/li>\n<li>Sign in as that user.<\/li>\n<li>Change the password.<\/li>\n<li>Sign out.<\/li>\n<li>Sign back in as yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But that&#8217;s a lot of work, and it adds the account to your machine just to change its password. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the trick: You can change the password directly from the password change dialog. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>Alt<\/kbd>+<kbd>Del<\/kbd>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <i>Change a password<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>On the <i>Change a password<\/i> screen,     focus defaults to the <i>Old password<\/i> edit box,     but you can go up to the account name box and change     the account name to the account whose password you want to change.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the account name, the old password, and the new password.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bingo, you changed somebody else&#8217;s password without having to sign out or even add them to your local machine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can do it from the password change screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-99205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>You can do it from the password change screen.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}