Unattend.txt syntax info for Twinkie

[Torment]

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!!

[classified]

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?

[AaronXP]

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.  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />