Comments on: Masking Passwords in Windows Scripts http://www.nilpo.com/2008/07/windows-scripting/masking-passwords-in-windows-scripts/ Ask the Windows Guru! Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Chasmant http://www.nilpo.com/2008/07/windows-scripting/masking-passwords-in-windows-scripts/#comment-83357 Chasmant Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:34:28 +0000 http://www.nilpo.com/2008/07/windows-scripting/masking-passwords-in-windows-scripts/#comment-83357 Is there a way to add your vb script to prompt for user name and password in this script and insert it this way I don't have to hard code it ' ----- ExeScript Options Begin ----- ' ScriptType: window ' DestDirectory: temp ' Icon: default ' OutputFile: C:\ASAP\script.exe ' CompanyName: ' FileVersion: 1.0.0.1 ' Creator: ' ProductVersion: 1.0.0.1 ' ----- ExeScript Options End ----- Option explicit dim wshShell, strpassword set wshShell=CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") strpassword = inputbox("Enter Password") wshShell.run("RunAs /noprofile /user:%computername%\administrator " & Chr(34) & "cmd /c\" & Chr(34) & WScript.Arguments(0) & "\" & Chr(34) & Chr(34)) WScript.Sleep 100 wshShell.AppActivate "RunAs" 'Replace the string --> yourpassword~ below with 'the password used on your system. Include tilde "~" wshShell.Sendkeys strpassword & "~" Wscript.Quit Is there a way to add your vb script to prompt for user name and password in this script and insert it this way I don’t have to hard code it

‘ —– ExeScript Options Begin —–
‘ ScriptType: window
‘ DestDirectory: temp
‘ Icon: default
‘ OutputFile: C:\ASAP\script.exe
‘ CompanyName:
‘ FileVersion: 1.0.0.1
‘ Creator:
‘ ProductVersion: 1.0.0.1
‘ —– ExeScript Options End —–
Option explicit
dim wshShell, strpassword
set wshShell=CreateObject(”Wscript.Shell”)
strpassword = inputbox(”Enter Password”)
wshShell.run(”RunAs /noprofile /user:%computername%\administrator ” & Chr(34) & “cmd /c\” & Chr(34) & WScript.Arguments(0) & “\” & Chr(34) & Chr(34))
WScript.Sleep 100
wshShell.AppActivate “RunAs”
‘Replace the string –> yourpassword~ below with
‘the password used on your system. Include tilde “~”
wshShell.Sendkeys strpassword & “~”
Wscript.Quit

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