USER_INFO_3 structure (lmaccess.h)

The USER_INFO_3 structure contains information about a user account, including the account name, password data, privilege level, the path to the user's home directory, relative identifiers (RIDs), and other user-related network statistics.

Syntax

typedef struct _USER_INFO_3 {
  LPWSTR usri3_name;
  LPWSTR usri3_password;
  DWORD  usri3_password_age;
  DWORD  usri3_priv;
  LPWSTR usri3_home_dir;
  LPWSTR usri3_comment;
  DWORD  usri3_flags;
  LPWSTR usri3_script_path;
  DWORD  usri3_auth_flags;
  LPWSTR usri3_full_name;
  LPWSTR usri3_usr_comment;
  LPWSTR usri3_parms;
  LPWSTR usri3_workstations;
  DWORD  usri3_last_logon;
  DWORD  usri3_last_logoff;
  DWORD  usri3_acct_expires;
  DWORD  usri3_max_storage;
  DWORD  usri3_units_per_week;
  PBYTE  usri3_logon_hours;
  DWORD  usri3_bad_pw_count;
  DWORD  usri3_num_logons;
  LPWSTR usri3_logon_server;
  DWORD  usri3_country_code;
  DWORD  usri3_code_page;
  DWORD  usri3_user_id;
  DWORD  usri3_primary_group_id;
  LPWSTR usri3_profile;
  LPWSTR usri3_home_dir_drive;
  DWORD  usri3_password_expired;
} USER_INFO_3, *PUSER_INFO_3, *LPUSER_INFO_3;

Members

usri3_name

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string that specifies the name of the user account. For the NetUserSetInfo function, this member is ignored. For more information, see the following Remarks section.

usri3_password

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string that specifies the password for the user identified by the usri3_name member. The length cannot exceed PWLEN bytes. The NetUserEnum and NetUserGetInfo functions return a NULL pointer to maintain password security.

By convention, the length of passwords is limited to LM20_PWLEN characters.

usri3_password_age

Type: DWORD

The number of seconds that have elapsed since the usri3_password member was last changed. The NetUserAdd and NetUserSetInfo functions ignore this member.

usri3_priv

Type: DWORD

The level of privilege assigned to the usri3_name member. The NetUserAdd and NetUserSetInfo functions ignore this member. This member can be one of the following values. For more information about user and group account rights, see Privileges.

Value Meaning
USER_PRIV_GUEST
Guest
USER_PRIV_USER
User
USER_PRIV_ADMIN
Administrator

usri3_home_dir

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string specifying the path of the home directory of the user specified by the usri3_name member. The string can be NULL.

usri3_comment

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string that contains a comment to associate with the user account. The string can be a NULL string, or it can have any number of characters before the terminating null character.

usri3_flags

Type: DWORD

This member can be one or more of the following values.

Note that setting user account control flags may require certain privileges and control access rights. For more information, see the Remarks section of the NetUserSetInfo function.

Value Meaning
UF_SCRIPT
The logon script executed. This value must be set.
UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE
The user's account is disabled.
UF_HOMEDIR_REQUIRED
The home directory is required. This value is ignored.
UF_PASSWD_NOTREQD
No password is required.
UF_PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE
The user cannot change the password.
UF_LOCKOUT
The account is currently locked out. You can call the NetUserSetInfo function to clear this value and unlock a previously locked account. You cannot use this value to lock a previously unlocked account.
UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD
The password should never expire on the account.
UF_ENCRYPTED_TEXT_PASSWORD_ALLOWED
The user's password is stored under reversible encryption in the Active Directory.
UF_NOT_DELEGATED
Marks the account as "sensitive"; other users cannot act as delegates of this user account.
UF_SMARTCARD_REQUIRED
Requires the user to log on to the user account with a smart card.
UF_USE_DES_KEY_ONLY
Restrict this principal to use only Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption types for keys.
UF_DONT_REQUIRE_PREAUTH
This account does not require Kerberos preauthentication for logon.
UF_TRUSTED_FOR_DELEGATION
The account is enabled for delegation. This is a security-sensitive setting; accounts with this option enabled should be tightly controlled. This setting allows a service running under the account to assume a client's identity and authenticate as that user to other remote servers on the network.
UF_PASSWORD_EXPIRED
The user's password has expired.

Windows 2000:  This value is not supported.

UF_TRUSTED_TO_AUTHENTICATE_FOR_DELEGATION
The account is trusted to authenticate a user outside of the Kerberos security package and delegate that user through constrained delegation. This is a security-sensitive setting; accounts with this option enabled should be tightly controlled. This setting allows a service running under the account to assert a client's identity and authenticate as that user to specifically configured services on the network.

Windows XP/2000:  This value is not supported.

 

The following values describe the account type. Only one value can be set. You cannot change the account type using the NetUserSetInfo function.

Value Meaning
UF_NORMAL_ACCOUNT
This is a default account type that represents a typical user.
UF_TEMP_DUPLICATE_ACCOUNT
This is an account for users whose primary account is in another domain. This account provides user access to this domain, but not to any domain that trusts this domain. The User Manager refers to this account type as a local user account.
UF_WORKSTATION_TRUST_ACCOUNT
This is a computer account for a computer that is a member of this domain.
UF_SERVER_TRUST_ACCOUNT
This is a computer account for a backup domain controller that is a member of this domain.
UF_INTERDOMAIN_TRUST_ACCOUNT
This is a permit to trust account for a domain that trusts other domains.

usri3_script_path

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string specifying the path for the user's logon script file. The script file can be a .CMD file, an .EXE file, or a .BAT file. The string can also be NULL.

usri3_auth_flags

Type: DWORD

The user's operator privileges.

For the NetUserGetInfo and NetUserEnum functions, the appropriate value is returned based on the local group membership. If the user is a member of Print Operators, AF_OP_PRINT is set. If the user is a member of Server Operators, AF_OP_SERVER is set. If the user is a member of the Account Operators, AF_OP_ACCOUNTS is set. AF_OP_COMM is never set.

The NetUserAdd and NetUserSetInfo functions ignore this member.

This member can be one or more of the following values.

Value Meaning
AF_OP_PRINT
The print operator privilege is enabled.
AF_OP_COMM
The communications operator privilege is enabled.
AF_OP_SERVER
The server operator privilege is enabled.
AF_OP_ACCOUNTS
The accounts operator privilege is enabled.

usri3_full_name

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string that contains the full name of the user. This string can be a NULL string, or it can have any number of characters before the terminating null character.

usri3_usr_comment

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string that contains a user comment. This string can be a NULL string, or it can have any number of characters before the terminating null character.

usri3_parms

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string that is reserved for use by applications. This string can be a NULL string, or it can have any number of characters before the terminating null character. Microsoft products use this member to store user configuration information. Do not modify this information.

usri3_workstations

Type: LPWSTR

Important

You should no longer use usri3_workstations. Instead, you can control sign-in access to workstations by configuring the User Rights Assignment settings (Allow log on locally and Deny log on locally, or Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services and Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services).

A pointer to a Unicode string that contains the names of workstations from which the user can log on. As many as eight workstations can be specified; the names must be separated by commas. If you do not want to restrict the number of workstations, use a NULL string. To disable logons from all workstations to this account, set the UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE value in the usri3_flags member.

usri3_last_logon

Type: DWORD

The date and time when the last logon occurred. This value is stored as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00, January 1, 1970, GMT. This member is ignored by the NetUserAdd and NetUserSetInfo functions.

This member is maintained separately on each backup domain controller (BDC) in the domain. To obtain an accurate value, you must query each BDC in the domain. The last logon occurred at the time indicated by the largest retrieved value.

usri3_last_logoff

Type: DWORD

This member is currently not used.

The date and time when the last logoff occurred. This value is stored as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00, January 1, 1970, GMT. A value of zero indicates that the last logoff time is unknown.

This member is maintained separately on each backup domain controller (BDC) in the domain. To obtain an accurate value, you must query each BDC in the domain. The last logoff occurred at the time indicated by the largest retrieved value.

usri3_acct_expires

Type: DWORD

The date and time when the account expires. This value is stored as the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00, January 1, 1970, GMT. A value of TIMEQ_FOREVER indicates that the account never expires.

usri3_max_storage

Type: DWORD

The maximum amount of disk space the user can use. Specify USER_MAXSTORAGE_UNLIMITED to use all available disk space.

usri3_units_per_week

Type: DWORD

The number of equal-length time units into which the week is divided. This value is required to compute the length of the bit string in the usri3_logon_hours member.

This value must be UNITS_PER_WEEK for LAN Manager 2.0. This element is ignored by the NetUserAdd and NetUserSetInfo functions.

For service applications, the units must be one of the following values: SAM_DAYS_PER_WEEK, SAM_HOURS_PER_WEEK, or SAM_MINUTES_PER_WEEK.

usri3_logon_hours

Type: PBYTE

A pointer to a 21-byte (168 bits) bit string that specifies the times during which the user can log on. Each bit represents a unique hour in the week, in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

The first bit (bit 0, word 0) is Sunday, 0:00 to 0:59; the second bit (bit 1, word 0) is Sunday, 1:00 to 1:59; and so on. Note that bit 0 in word 0 represents Sunday from 0:00 to 0:59 only if you are in the GMT time zone. In all other cases you must adjust the bits according to your time zone offset (for example, GMT minus 8 hours for Pacific Standard Time).

Specify a NULL pointer in this member when calling the NetUserAdd function to indicate no time restriction. Specify a NULL pointer when calling the NetUserSetInfo function to indicate that no change is to be made to the times during which the user can log on.

usri3_bad_pw_count

Type: DWORD

The number of times the user tried to log on to the account using an incorrect password. A value of – 1 indicates that the value is unknown. Calls to the NetUserAdd and NetUserSetInfo functions ignore this member.

This member is replicated from the primary domain controller (PDC); it is also maintained on each backup domain controller (BDC) in the domain. To obtain an accurate value, you must query each BDC in the domain. The number of times the user tried to log on using an incorrect password is the largest value retrieved.

usri3_num_logons

Type: DWORD

The number of times the user logged on successfully to this account. A value of – 1 indicates that the value is unknown. Calls to the NetUserAdd and NetUserSetInfo functions ignore this member.

This member is maintained separately on each backup domain controller (BDC) in the domain. To obtain an accurate value, you must query each BDC in the domain. The number of times the user logged on successfully is the sum of the retrieved values.

usri3_logon_server

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string that contains the name of the server to which logon requests are sent. Server names should be preceded by two backslashes (\). To indicate that the logon request can be handled by any logon server, specify an asterisk (\*) for the server name. A NULL string indicates that requests should be sent to the domain controller.

For Windows servers, NetUserGetInfo and NetUserEnum return \*. The NetUserAdd and NetUserSetInfo functions ignore this member.

usri3_country_code

Type: DWORD

The country/region code for the user's language of choice.

usri3_code_page

Type: DWORD

The code page for the user's language of choice.

usri3_user_id

Type: DWORD

The relative ID (RID) of the user. The RID is determined by the Security Account Manager (SAM) when the user is created. It uniquely defines the user account to SAM within the domain. The NetUserAdd and NetUserSetInfo functions ignore this member. For more information about RIDs, see SID Components.

usri3_primary_group_id

Type: DWORD

The RID of the Primary Global Group for the user. When you call the NetUserAdd function, this member must be DOMAIN_GROUP_RID_USERS (defined in WinNT.h). When you call NetUserSetInfo, this member must be the RID of a global group in which the user is enrolled. For more information, see Well-Known SIDs.

usri3_profile

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string that specifies a path to the user's profile. This value can be a NULL string, a local absolute path, or a UNC path.

usri3_home_dir_drive

Type: LPWSTR

A pointer to a Unicode string that specifies the drive letter assigned to the user's home directory for logon purposes.

usri3_password_expired

Type: DWORD

The password expiration information.

The NetUserGetInfo and NetUserEnum functions return zero if the password has not expired (and nonzero if it has).

When you call NetUserAdd or NetUserSetInfo, specify a nonzero value in this member to inform users that they must change their password at the next logon. To turn off this message, call NetUserSetInfo and specify zero in this member. Note that you cannot specify zero to negate the expiration of a password that has already expired.

Remarks

The USER_INFO_3 structure can be used with the NetUserAdd, NetUserEnum, NetUserSetInfo, and NetUserGetInfo functions.

User account names are limited to 20 characters and group names are limited to 256 characters. In addition, account names cannot be terminated by a period and they cannot include commas or any of the following printable characters: ", /, , [, ], :, |, <, >, +, =, ;, ?, *. Names also cannot include characters in the range 1-31, which are nonprintable.

Note that the USER_INFO_4 structure supersedes the USER_INFO_3 structure on Windows XP and later. It is recommended that applications use the USER_INFO_4 structure instead of the USER_INFO_3 structure with the NetUserAdd, NetUserSetInfo, and NetUserGetInfo functions on Windows XP and later.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]
Header lmaccess.h (include Lm.h)

See also

NetUserAdd

NetUserEnum

NetUserGetInfo

NetUserSetInfo

Network Management Overview

Network Management Structures

User Functions