Re: User names and passwords in an encrypted batch file?

On Nov 9, 12:27 pm, Luchezar Georgiev <lu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Steve Fabian пишет:

| What do people have to hide inside a batch file?
| What's the purpose of the encryption?!
Usernames and passwords.

User names and passwords hidden inside an encrypted batch file? Do such
batch file exist? Is a batch file a good place for this? Wouldn't it be
better to hide such sensitive data into a strongly encrypted data base?

I do. I have a few batch files which contain embedded domain
usernames/passwords, so they can be run by non-priviledged users
(student employees) and 'bootstrap' themselves to perform
administrative tasks (e.g. create/reset other student accounts.)
These batch files are, of course, compressed and encrypted --
otherwise, anyone could read the administrative username and password
with any text editor.

Obviously, I would not be orgasmically delighted to see a .BTM
decryptor-decompressor released into the wild. It seems very likely
that 4DOS and 4NT/TCC use the same mechanism.

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Charles Dye raster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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