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09-08-2009
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| | Creating or copying a file with alternate credentials We're using a management tool to run a VBS against our machines off hours, so most of them will not have a user logged on at the time the script runs. Under certain circumstances we want the script to write a file to a network share. The problem is because the management tool is running the script it runs as SYSTEM on the PC. I need to provide domain credentials to write to the share. Right now my script is attempting oFSO.CreateTextFile to the share and it fails. Is there a way to pass credentials to that? If not (and I think that will be the case) how else might I accomplish this file write? Thanks, Tom |
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09-08-2009
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| | Re: Creating or copying a file with alternate credentials "T Ker" <thomasDOTkerA@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uHx%23V5IMKHA.1268@xxxxxx Quote: > We're using a management tool to run a VBS against our machines off hours, > so most of them will not have a user logged on at the time the script > runs. Under certain circumstances we want the script to write a file to a > network share. The problem is because the management tool is running the > script it runs as SYSTEM on the PC. I need to provide domain credentials > to write to the share. Right now my script is attempting > oFSO.CreateTextFile to the share and it fails. > > Is there a way to pass credentials to that? If not (and I think that will > be the case) how else might I accomplish this file write? > > Thanks, > > Tom account in order to give it sufficient access to the share. The alternative is to use one of the many "runas" look-alikes (e.g. sanur). This creates a big security hole because you will have to embed a domain password in the script. |
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09-09-2009
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| | Re: Creating or copying a file with alternate credentials Thanks, Pegasus. I'm working with the built-in RunAs now and I've got this command line working interactively... runas /noprofile /env /user:MyDomain\DomainUser "%SystemRoot%\System32\wscript.exe \"C:\{path}\Audit.vbs"\" Now, how can I get the password into it? Thanks, Tom "Pegasus [MVP]" <news@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ONwudwJMKHA.3704@xxxxxx Quote: > > "T Ker" <thomasDOTkerA@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:uHx%23V5IMKHA.1268@xxxxxx Quote: >> We're using a management tool to run a VBS against our machines off >> hours, so most of them will not have a user logged on at the time the >> script runs. Under certain circumstances we want the script to write a >> file to a network share. The problem is because the management tool is >> running the script it runs as SYSTEM on the PC. I need to provide domain >> credentials to write to the share. Right now my script is attempting >> oFSO.CreateTextFile to the share and it fails. >> >> Is there a way to pass credentials to that? If not (and I think that >> will be the case) how else might I accomplish this file write? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom > The ideal solution would be to run the management tool under a domain > account in order to give it sufficient access to the share. The > alternative is to use one of the many "runas" look-alikes (e.g. sanur). > This creates a big security hole because you will have to embed a domain > password in the script. > |
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09-09-2009
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| | Re: Creating or copying a file with alternate credentials "T Ker" <thomasDOTkerA@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OBsPn$UMKHA.5192@xxxxxx Quote: > Thanks, Pegasus. > > I'm working with the built-in RunAs now and I've got this command line > working interactively... > > runas /noprofile /env /user:MyDomain\DomainUser > "%SystemRoot%\System32\wscript.exe \"C:\{path}\Audit.vbs"\" > > Now, how can I get the password into it? > > Thanks, > > Tom (http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/cpau.htm). |
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09-09-2009
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| | Re: Creating or copying a file with alternate credentials Hi Tom, If your machines are joined to a domain you can add "domain computers" to share and ntfs rights - this would allow the system accounts of domain joined machines to write to the share. Jens "T Ker" <thomasDOTkerA@xxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse news:uHx%23V5IMKHA.1268@xxxxxx Quote: > We're using a management tool to run a VBS against our machines off hours, > so most of them will not have a user logged on at the time the script > runs. Under certain circumstances we want the script to write a file to a > network share. The problem is because the management tool is running the > script it runs as SYSTEM on the PC. I need to provide domain credentials > to write to the share. Right now my script is attempting > oFSO.CreateTextFile to the share and it fails. > > Is there a way to pass credentials to that? If not (and I think that will > be the case) how else might I accomplish this file write? > > Thanks, > > Tom > |
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