Task Schedular

[danishau2001]

Hi,

Is there any way of recovering a password out of a scheduled task from
Windows Task Scheduler ? The reason I ask this is because my
company wants to run a web service that feeds tasks into Task Scheduler

throguh Schtasks.exe (command line tool for task scheduler).

Also if any one could tell me of any other security risks that Task
Scheduler might pose in a situation like this, I would be really
grateful.


Thanks
Danish

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

Is there any way of recovering a password out of a scheduled task from
Windows Task Scheduler ? The reason I ask this is because my
company wants to run a web service that feeds tasks into Task Scheduler

throguh Schtasks.exe (command line tool for task scheduler).

Also if any one could tell me of any other security risks that Task
Scheduler might pose in a situation like this, I would be really
grateful.


Thanks
Danish

No, you cannot retrieve a password from an existing scheduled
task, same as you cannot retrieve a password from the SAM,
unless you hit it with a supercomputer.

 

[danishau2001]

Thanks, but do you think there are other ways of getting this user
info, as in other than Schtasks?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I can't think of any, but why don't you just rerun schtasks.exe
with an account whose password you know?