Re: Task Schedule Credentials - where stored?

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From: tlviewer (tlviewerSHRUB_at_yahoo.CHENEY.com)
Date: 04/23/04


Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:20:47 -0700


"D Barry" <google@dcbarry.com> wrote in message news:6d9b9a07.0404231452.4d5fd832@posting.google.com...
> Can't believe that I cant find this info after all my searching, but
> just where and how does the win2K and XP Task Schedulers store the
> RunAs credentials (password).
>
> Can some one point my to MS documentation. Basically, I'd like to
> know how securely those credentials are stored.
>
> Thanks
>
> d.

Unless you work for them, its not documented!

This kind of thing is easy to delimit by running monitor
software in the background.

My guess is that the Pwd is encrypted somewhere in the usual
profile like
C:\Docume~1\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Protect\<sid>

Try running FileMon.exe from www.sysinternals.com while you
reset the credentials of a task/job in the Mstask GUI.

hth,
msp



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