Change Password in Windows via Command Line Interface

To change your Windows account password via CLI, do the following:

Note: You can do this in Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition only.

1. Start Windows .
2. Launch Terminal in OS X (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and find out Windows UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) by executing the following command:

   prlctl list --all

   The output may be as follows:

   UUID STATUS IP_ADDR NAME

   {6f05fe58-2ef6-4049-847a-c393f1077658} running - Windows 7

   6f05fe58-2ef6-4049-847a-c393f1077658 is the Windows UUID.

3. Change your Windows account password by executing the following command:

   prlctl set <Windows UUID> --userpasswd <account_name>:<new_password>

   This command may look as follows:

   prlctl set 6f05fe58-2ef6-4049-847a-c393f1077658 --userpasswd Appleseed:qwerty

   If you see the following output, the password has been changed successfully:

   authentication tokens updated successfully.