r/learnprogramming • u/Rolloveralready • 17h ago

Encrypt password in bat

I have a bat file which sets a username and password for a service.

sc.exe config "myService" obj= "MYDOMAIN\myuser" password= "redacted"

Is it possible to encrypt the password?

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u/doctorfluffy 17h ago

You can hash it and save the hash I guess.

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u/bravopapa99 17h ago

Maybe use something like Hashicorp Vault, or similar.

https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault

I have used this years back, open source solutions may well exist.

https://openbao.org/

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u/Environmental_Mix856 15h ago

Does it have to be a bat file? Powershell can at least encrypt into a secondary file. Or use a vault like people are suggesting, azure key vault, google secret manager.