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    Posted: 06 November 2009 at 1:26pm
A question a bit off topic - is it possible to access and reuse the -u and -p parameters passed to psexec?

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OK - that helps.  The password is in the command supplied to psexec, rather than the one supplied to psexec itself.  Is it an option, to place the command to be executed by psexec inside of a batch file?
  psexec \\server -s cmd /c theBatchFile.cmd
Of course, theBatchFile.cmd would need to reside on \\server (or it would need to be copied there)...
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I am starting an installation on a remote 2008 server.  This requires "elevated security rights", so it need to be started as a local administrator or system account (don't work with a domain admin - even if its a member of the local administrators group).
The installation package is placed on a network share - so I need to do two things. 
First - map the network resource
Second - start the installation.

The command looks like this:

psecec \\server -s cmd /c "net use \\server\ipc$ xxxxxxxx /user:domain\username & \\server\share\job.cmd"

where xxxxxxxxx is the password.

The job produces output so I can't hide the window.
This works - but the password will be shown in the windows title as long as the job runs - and this could be for several minutes.
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What command are you running (camouflage any sensitive information)?  A quick test of launching CMD.EXE on a remote system shows the title included those details for only a second.  Recall that you can omit the password from the command-line and specify it when prompted...
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Yes - I think you're right.  To bad - this is a bit awkward when a command contains a password.  It will show up in the windows title.

Thanks anyway!!

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Hi Laffen,

I'm reminded of this, which would seem to indicate that PsExec will set the title; AFAIK, this is not configurable. 
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Is there a way to set the windows title when using psexec.  Now the remote command will show as the windows title, and thats not what I want.

Anyone?
 
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