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Local Administrator password change for many computers

From: Jason Gates <jasongates () SOUTHERN EDU>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:20:36 +0000

Has anyone come across a good method for changing local administrator passwords on many computers?
I've looked into:
pspasswd from sysinternals
group policy preferences
SCCM scripts

I'm not impressed with how GPP obfuscates the password, scripts are insecure(?) and pspasswd is not very ellegant since 
it requires the computer to be alive at the time its run.
Any other ideas?
--
Jason Gates
IT Security Consultant
Southern Adventist University

Current thread:

Local Administrator password change for many computers Jason Gates (Oct 05)
- Re: Local Administrator password change for many computers H Morrow Long (Oct 05)
  - Re: Local Administrator password change for many computers George Chiorescu-Petre (Oct 07)
    - Re: Local Administrator password change for many computers Jason Gates (Oct 07)
- Re: Local Administrator password change for many computers Eric Case (Oct 08)