About the /F options

[seesea]

When I use the /F command-line options to specified an alternate folder，I found it changed the global settings, even if I disable the menu "Options > Auto save options", or using the /NOSAVE command-line options.
My CRT version is 5.5, is it a bug? Or is there a method to use a config folder temporarily?

Thanks.

Another question: when I use a saved session which contains the password, can I supply another password instead of it in a script? Because that session's configuration file is generated by the script, but I don't know how to encrypt the plainpassword.

[rtb]

Hi seesea,

When I use the /F command-line options to specified an alternate folder，I found it changed the global settings, even if I disable the menu "Options > Auto save options", or using the /NOSAVE command-line options.
My CRT version is 5.5, is it a bug? Or is there a method to use a config folder temporarily?

Thanks for the question. This is a bug that should be fixed in SecureCRT 6.0.3.

Another question: when I use a saved session which contains the password, can I supply another password instead of it in a script? Because that session's configuration file is generated by the script, but I don't know how to encrypt the plainpassword.

It is not possible to supply a different password when one is saved in a session. Can you tell me what it is you are attempting to accomplish?

[seesea]

Hi Todd,
Thanks for your infomation.

It is not possible to supply a different password when one is saved in a session. Can you tell me what it is you are attempting to accomplish?

As mentioned before, the "saved session" is not really "saved" but generated by script, so I have to supply a password's ciphertext.
Any more, I will upgrade SecureCRT to avoid do so.

Thanks again.
ss

[rtb]

Hi seesea,

Thanks for the clarification. It sounds like you are attempting to create sessions via a script, and you want to know how to encode the password. We do not currently offer a mechanism to encode a password for use in a saved session.

I have created a feature request in our SecureCRT development database to add the ability to save a password to a session .ini file via a script. Should a future release of SecureCRT have this capability, we will post to this forum thread.

If you would like to be notified directly, please complete and submit the form at the following location:

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[seesea]

That will be a useful function sometimes. Thank you Todd.

[rtb]

Hi seesea,

I am glad to help. As a note, I am working on an example script that may help you accomplish your goal if you are using SecureCRT 6.6.2. I will post it to this thread when it is finished.

Again, we will also post to this thread if a future release of SecureCRT has the ability to save a plain text password in an encrypted password format via a script.