Hi, all.
I realize this is a question that deals more with my lack of understanding of NT than
with any specifics of perl, but I'm having no luck finding an answer elsewhere so
perhaps someone here could take pity and bump my clue level up a notch:
I have a number of NT4 standalone (not domain members) workstations that I want to be
able to perform remote administration on from my own workstation. The problem is that
there are some 300 workstations in almost 40 different geographic locations, with a
different machine Administrator password at each site.
The scripts I've seen thus far all seem to assume that the executor of the script has
domain admin privileges (not applicable in this environment) or a shared password with
the boxes being administered. So, when I run a script against a machine where this is
not the case, I either get a failure, or in some cases a GUI Win32 dialog prompting me
for a username/password pair. This rather defeats the purpose of the scripting. ;-)
Given that I can't change the authentication model (it's there to stay, just the way
it is) is there any way I can programmatically connect to the remote machines with the
administrator password appropriate to each site? (And yes, I fully understand that
leaving passwords in plaintext in scripts is a profoundly bad idea. If it looks
necessary the script can be encrypted and a key provided at runtime .. Entering one
password is not an inconvenience. Entering forty is.) Any suggestions? Pointers?
Fine Manuals that I could Read?
Thanks!
-Steve.
Steve Nolan
Vancouver Island Regional Library
Systems Support Services
(250) 758-4697 x 217
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