Hi Robert, thanks for the link. I was unaware of this piece of Microsoft software. Have (or has anyone) had success in getting this to work? I have successfully encoded my script but running it on my computer doesn't seem to work. I have a WScript.echo "I'm Done" command at the end of the script that never comes up once encoded which also tells me that the script hasn't run. Not to mention the fact that password isn't changed. Can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong? I could post the script if that will help.
-----Original Message----- From: Brower, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 10:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: RE: Changing local admin PW using vb logon script - can it be encrypted? Microsoft has a script encoder you can download here. It works fine, but isn't very strong encryption. If you're just looking to hide your script from casual viewing this is a great product. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E7877F67-C447-4 873-B1B0-21F0626A6329&displaylang=en -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Changing local admin PW using vb logon script - can it be encrypted? Hi all, Long time lurker, first time poster. We have roughly 500 computers that we'd like to change the local admin passwords on. We realize the security risks of having 1 password on all of our computers and are willing to assume that risk. We've developed a VB script that we can implement as a logon script that works perfectly to change the password. We do not want this script sent along as clear text if we can avoid it. Is there any way we can encrypt this script? We've looked at options such as using Windows permissions to either deny Domain Users access (preventing anyone from reading the script) or allowing only Domain Computers Read Only access...however I think that if you are logged into a local computer you should be able to read the script. Not to mention, if you could capture the packets, you could easily find the script and its contents so permissions would matter at all in that scenario. Any help and/or insight is greatly appreciated. Best, ...tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
