uN = 'Administrator' pWD = 'welcome@123' ## password setup is based on policy requirement. the complex policy does not accept the simple password! import ctypes import subprocess class disable_file_system_redirection: _disable = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection _revert = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection def __enter__(self): self.old_value = ctypes.c_long() self.success = self._disable(ctypes.byref(self.old_value)) def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback): if self.success: self._revert(self.old_value) with disable_file_system_redirection(): pObj = subprocess.Popen('net user "%s" "%s"'%(uN, pWD), shell=True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.PIPE) oC = pObj.communicate() ret=pObj.returncode if ret==0: print oC[0].strip() else: print oC[1].strip()