Showing posts with label password. Show all posts
Showing posts with label password. Show all posts

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Getting password in batch file

This batch script gets the password without displaying user input. Tested only in XP. Vbs script is required.
@echo off
echo wscript.echo CreateObject("ScriptPW.Password").GetPassword()>%temp%\getpwd.vbs
set pwd=Password: <nul
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('cscript /nologo %temp%\GetPwd.vbs') do set pwd=%%i
echo.
echo "%pwd%"
The last line shows the user password for testing purposes. Note that password must be enclosed in double quotes to prevent bad inputs that contains &.