Passwords in clear text workaround

[TonyMcK]

Hi Guys,

From what I understand of the current version of BatchPatch that when you specify credentials for a remote system PSEXEC passes the password in plain text. Now while I undersstand this is a limitation of PSEXEC itself our security guys are throwing a hissy fit (understandably)

But… Having done a little research I found this article http://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog/2010/06/01/protecting-admin-passwords-remote-response-forensics/

I explains how to get round this limitation by mapping to the IPC$ share of the remote system before executing the task.

What are the possibilities of getting this built into a future version of the software?

Taa,

Tony.

[doug]

Tony – Great news is that the latest version of PsExec (v2.1 published in March 2014) actually sends all data over the network via an encrypted channel, so this is no longer an issue!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897553.aspx

-Doug

[TonyMcK]

Why thank you Doug..

That is indeed good news 🙂

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