asked on Safe way to use a password in a bat or cmd file?
I have a program I need to run several sessions of at a time so I am looking at scripting it to open and log on to each one. For the exe I have the syntax but don't want to use my password in a unencrypted format.
It would look something like this
appsRUS.exe -b servername1 -u domain\myaccount -p compootersarecool
I need to make the -p part encrypted and not use plain text in a script.
It would look something like this
appsRUS.exe -b servername1 -u domain\myaccount -p compootersarecool
I need to make the -p part encrypted and not use plain text in a script.
VB ScriptProgrammingWindows Server 2012
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Brian Pringle
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What do you mean multiple sessions to different sites? Do you mean web sites? Remote App login? RDP?
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Using a local client .exe connecting to different application servers for each region.
The application is the vsphere client connecting to different vcenter servers across the globe.
What I am trying to do is set up a script that I can click on and it will open the exe and connect to each site individually. I have the syntax that will work with the exe just don't want to put my password in a plain text file.
The application is the vsphere client connecting to different vcenter servers across the globe.
What I am trying to do is set up a script that I can click on and it will open the exe and connect to each site individually. I have the syntax that will work with the exe just don't want to put my password in a plain text file.
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If you used the VSphere Web Client instead of the .exe then you could easily couple that with something like LastPass which would automatically fill in the credentials for you while keeping them all very secure.
Any reason that wouldn't work for you?
Any reason that wouldn't work for you?
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Even if I could figure out a way to do a run as on the script that would carry over to the command that would work.