Charles Dye
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I'm uploading a test version of a new plugin to obscure passwords in TCMD.INI. If you don't have any passwords in your .INI file, this plugin cannot do anything good for you.
If you'd like to test this plugin, please back up your .INI file first, as the plugin does modify it. Copy the appropriate .DLL file into a subdirectory PLUGINS in your Take Command program directory, so it is always loaded at startup. Then close all instances of TCC. The first time you start TCC after installing the plugin, the passwords in your .INI file should be obfuscated.
For testing purposes I am including a little batch file SHOW.BTM which displays the current values of the obscured directives. This batch file relies on a known (deliberate) security loophole in the plugin; the loophole (and the batch file) will be removed before the plugin is released.
If you'd like to guineapig my code, you can find it here: http://www.unm.edu/~cdye/plugins/hidepasswords.html
If you'd like to test this plugin, please back up your .INI file first, as the plugin does modify it. Copy the appropriate .DLL file into a subdirectory PLUGINS in your Take Command program directory, so it is always loaded at startup. Then close all instances of TCC. The first time you start TCC after installing the plugin, the passwords in your .INI file should be obfuscated.
For testing purposes I am including a little batch file SHOW.BTM which displays the current values of the obscured directives. This batch file relies on a known (deliberate) security loophole in the plugin; the loophole (and the batch file) will be removed before the plugin is released.
If you'd like to guineapig my code, you can find it here: http://www.unm.edu/~cdye/plugins/hidepasswords.html