Re: Generate password from computer name

From: Ray at <%=sLocation%> [MVP] (%=sLocation%)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:51:53 -0500

Why do you want/need unique administrator passwords? That sounds like a
PITA to manage, regardless of how you do them. Just curious.

Ray at work

"Klaatu" <klaatu@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xns94A95366ACA4klaatunospaminvalid@127.0.0.1...
> I've searched Google's archives of this group but I'm either trying the
> wrong terms or this is a unique project.
>
> I've got some 200 workstations (running 2K and XP) in a OU where I need
> to generate unique passwords for the Administrator account on each
> machine. I'm thinking right now to use the workstation name as the
> starting place and somehow use that and some rudimentary encryption to
> generate the password. The batch program will be used when configuring
> the workstation and whenever I need to look up what a particular
> machine's Administrator account password is.
>
> Hopefully someone's already done something similar that might have some
> code that could get me started, because I'm not too sure how to begin at
> this point.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny,
> consume you it will..."
> -- Some guy from some movie. (You know, the one with the thing)

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