Re: RE: Changing local admin PW using vb logon script - can it beencrypted?

Hi everyone,


As Thor noticed, script placed on sysvol share can be read by anyone. I've
had the same problem once. Script can be readable by users, but password
has to be secured. I placed password in a separate file, put it on a share
and set share permissions that only computer accounts had read permissions
(it was startup script). Location of password file was hard-coded into
script. Users were not able to open it. Of course, during network
trasmission it would be sent in clear text, so IPSec would be great
solution for securing comm channel.


Best regards,

Vedran Matica


> Hi Jason,
> That does help, thank you and thanks to everyone for the help and
> bountiful responses.
>
> We are really most concerned with casual viewing of the script though by
> users,etc. With that in mind, I think I've settled on using the Windows
> Script Encoder. This will encode the vbscript to the point of
> unreadability, again, only from the casual standpoint. We're not
> ultimately concerned about packet sniffers so IPSEC would be overkill.
>
> On the note of using Windows Script Encoder (and this is probably the
> wrong place to ask); has anyone successfully used this to encode a working
> script? I got the script (VB) running on my computer. I run the encoder
> and it seems to succesfully encode the script. I attempt to run it and it
> doesn't seem successful. It won't debug itself either so I'm having a
> hard time figuring out what is happening between the encode and the run
> that is breaking it.
>
> I apologize if this has moved off topic and thank everyone again for your
> help and suggestions.
>
> best,
> ...tom
>
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