Hide or encrypt input on a custom command?

[michael_522]

I have created a reboot/shutdown custom command for windows servers. The command prompts you for credentials, including password. Is there any way to mask that text that the user is typing? A follow up to that, is there a way not to have the command that is being run show up on the HPSIM log files, becuase the command does include the userid and password. Thanks in advance...

[David Claypool]

The only way that I can think of would require OpenSSH to be available at each of the nodes and for it to trust HP SIM. When you invoked a command (would be the subtly different 'Command Line Tools' as opposed to 'Custom Command') no credentials would need to be passed because of the key trust.

[michael_522]

Well, the credentials need to be typed in because there are multiple windows domains that are managed and the credentials to use are server or target list dependant. Also, if I choose from the menu items to install OpenSSH, the page that displays asks for id, domain, and password. The password field is '*' out as I type. Is there any way to accomplish the same thing on a CC field?

[David Claypool]

Your point about the 'Install OpenSSH' is a good one, but the feature that it uses is not available without programming. In other words, it can't be accessed using a tool definition.

It doesn't matter if each system were to have an individual password; when distributing the SSH key for trust it will require the credentials for the remote system and thereafter it's done based on trust relationships, not passwords.

[David Claypool]

Bumped to be above moved questions...