How to Enable a Local User Account in PowerShell

To enable a local user account in PowerShell, use the `Enable-LocalUser` command. This command enables local user accounts.

Here, is the PowerShell code to enable a local user account.

Enable-LocalUser [-Name] <String[]> [-SID] <SecurityIdentifier[]>  [-InputObject] <LocalUser[]>

When a user account is disabled, the user can not log on. When a user account is enabled, the user can log on.

In this article, we will discuss how to enable a local user account using the PowerShell Enable-LocalUser command.

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Enable Local User Account Using PowerShell

To enable a local user account in PowerShell, use the Enable-LocalUser cmdlet with the Name parameter to specify the local user account name,

Enable-LocalUser -Name "nathan"

In the above PowerShell script, the Enable-LocalUser cmdlet enables the local user account name specified by the Name parameter “nathan“.

To check if the user account is enabled or not, use the Get-LocalUser command as given below.

 Get-LocalUser -Name "nathan"

The output of the above PowerShell script gets the local user account details including his name, enable status, and description.

I hope the above article on how to use the Enable-LocalUser command in PowerShell to enable a local user account is helpful to you.

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