----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 11:56 AM
Subject: Remote admin with multiple passwords?
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?
http://www.roth.net/perl/adminmisc/#DealWithUserCheckPassword
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