Rename local admin (Perl)

This code can be found in Chapter 2 of Windows Server 2003 Security Cookbook

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# This code renames the local administrator account.
# ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------

use Win32::OLE;

$strComputer = '.';
$strNewName = '<NewUserName>';
# e.g. mike
# ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------

$objComputer = Win32::OLE->GetObject('WinNT://' . $strComputer);
$objUser = Win32::OLE->GetObject('WinNT://' . $strComputer . '/Administrator,user');
$objNewUser = $objComputer->MoveHere($objUser->ADsPath, $strNewName);
print "Successfully renamed account to: $strNewName\n";

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