Read the below if you want, I've kinda already discarded the idea as i think it would be a security risk. No way to delete the thread or i would.



I have a whacky need that i'm not even sure is possible.

We recently implemented unified login's for a piece of software i'm the administrator of. These unified login's essentially pull your windows username/password and cross reference it with a database holding all the users of this software. If two match, it logs you in automatically.

This sounds peachy at first, until I realized that i need the ability to log in as an admin. What i've done to resolve this is gotten a second network account created. I can now use the run as command (right click>run as on the executable) to run the application under a different windows username/password, which the program doesn't recognize and thus prompts me for a username and password.

Now for needing to go in multiple times a day, thats sorta a pain. Is it possible to write a script that'll take me up to the point of putting in the admin credentials to login to the application. Likewise, if done, it's probably not 100% security safe to have my username/password for windows available in a batch file or similar? Can you just hide that info or encrypt it or something?

Let me know what the options are on this if any people. Or if i'm stuck doing the right click on the executable.

 

It's kinda hard for me to understand all the detail of what you have in there, because I really love looking at things myself .

To tell you the truth basically, "anything" can be automated. Question is how much work that is.
My guess is you can install cygwin and use unix shell script, which has tons of abilities. You must encrypt the password, because yes it is not safe to store it .

 

what's the software?