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Hi Michael,

I agree with Murda, losing dial-up passwords is not a normal behavior
and setting passwords using plain text scripts is not a good practice
and it doesn't solve the problem at the root.

It may be that something (or someone) is using the machines to connect
to a different ISP and then it tries to revert all the settings but the
password. There are plenty of dialers in the wild and the risk of your
clients connecting to an ISP overseas during the night is not so remote.

If the dial up accounts are used to connect to your server rather than
the Internet I would try to look for traces of Internet use, checking
the browser's cache, history, logs, etc.

Beside the malware changing the dial-up settings, the passwords (and all
the others stored in the user account) may be lost because someone is
resetting the user's password.


Just my two cents,


Paolo.



Murda Mcloud wrote:
> 
> I'm glad you found a workaround but I'd be worried that some kind of spyware
> or similar may have got on your machine. Anything to do with dialup and
> disappearing passwords links etc makes me nervous.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Michael Chinn
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:07 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Set dialup password from cmdline
> 
> Problem solved with rasdial.exe, you can simply pass the username and 
> password directly to it
> 
> Michael Chinn wrote:
>> I am looking for a way to forcibly set the password that a dialup 
>> connection sets from a script/command line, searching has proved 
>> futile. For some unknown reason dialup passwords on client machines 
>> are blanking intermittently.
>>
> 
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