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General Category => Software => Topic started by: Torment on May 01, 2003, 12:21:36 PM

Title: Unattend.txt syntax info for Twinkie
Post by: Torment on May 01, 2003, 12:21:36 PM

Hello Twinkie,

I've been to your site (www.tech-hints.com) and it's great stuff.  I noticed something in your description of the unattend area of your site.  It's written;

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=* ; or type in your password here. Note that is plain text and anyone can read the unattend file.

This is true unless you write, just below it;
EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes

If you do this, then the password will look like this;
5dc073190d5ca874aad3b435b51404ee23495f6bc61566f8e13f3f432d0ddc5e
within the unattend.txt file. Kind of hard to read now and it works fine.

Continue your excellent work!!

Title: Unattend.txt syntax info for Twinkie
Post by: classified on May 13, 2003, 01:09:22 PM

Do you have to do an install before the password gets encrypted or did you
create this in one of the tools from the deploy/support CAB files?

Title: Unattend.txt syntax info for Twinkie
Post by: AaronXP on May 13, 2003, 05:55:27 PM

yes, you have to use the included setupmgr.exe from the deploy.cab to encrypt your password. You can't randomly make up letters and numbers and hope for your choosen password to work.  /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />