Is it possible to capture a password in cmd Net Use? - batch-file

Question

bat script to get a users name and password to connect to shared network drives, the key element is:
net use u: \\server\users\%UserName% * /user:%UserName% /persistent:no
This works great as the password prompt is requested by the "*" which is hidden from view and I have already captured the user's login name. Mapping to other locations on the same server works without any further user input but as soon as I map to another server the user will be prompted to input their password again.
Is there anyway I can capture the entry typed at "*" to apply to a string for the other servers?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Thanks for the responses, unfortunately my email, must be blocking the replies as I didn't get any notifications.
I've never used PowerShell so that would be another learning curve and JosefZ's post certainly will be reviewed.
I did some more intensive searching out of work hours and located a command based utility:
EditVar/EditV32/EditV64 and Choose/Choose32/Choose64
(C) 2006-2014 by Bill Stewart (bstewart#iname.com)
This resides in the same location as the orinal script and just requires a line to call it and assign a string, in the example below %PASSWORD% will be the string which I can then use in place of "*", works a treat.
editv64 -p "Enter your password: " PASSWORD -m
Good to get feed back and I'll be sorting my email filters out - Cheers.

Answer 2

A clone from my answer to another question:
Set /P "=Type the password for \\server\users\%UserName%:" < Nul
Call :PasswordInput serverpass
net use u: \\server\users\%UserName% %serverpass% /user:%UserName% /persistent:no
rem skip over the procedure
goto :eof
:PasswordInput
::Author: Carlos Montiers Aguilera
::Last updated: 20150401. Created: 20150401.
::Set in variable Line a input password
::
::Update 20150503: https://stackoverflow.com/users/3439404/josefz?tab=profile
::Changes made in next lines:
:: SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
:: If !CHR!==!CR! Echo(&EndLocal&set "%1=%Line%"&Goto :Eof
::Usage:
:: Call :PasswordInput variableName
::where variableName is a name of output variable (by reference call)
::
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
For /F skip^=1^ delims^=^ eol^= %%# in (
'"Echo(|Replace.exe "%~f0" . /U /W"') Do Set "CR=%%#"
For /F %%# In (
'"Prompt $H &For %%_ In (_) Do Rem"') Do Set "BS=%%#"
Set "Line="
:_PasswordInput_Kbd
Set "CHR=" & For /F skip^=1^ delims^=^ eol^= %%# in (
'Replace.exe "%~f0" . /U /W') Do Set "CHR=%%#"
If !CHR!==!CR! Echo(&EndLocal&set "%1=%Line%"&Goto :Eof
If !CHR!==!BS! (If Defined Line (Set /P "=!BS! !BS!" <Nul
Set "Line=!Line:~0,-1!"
)
) Else (Set /P "=*" <Nul
If !CHR!==! (Set "Line=!Line!^!"
) Else Set "Line=!Line!!CHR!"
)
Goto :_PasswordInput_Kbd
Resources (required reading):
(command reference) An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line
(additional particularities) Windows CMD Shell Command Line Syntax

Answer 3

PowerShell sample script to read hidden input string and pass to multiple net use commands:
Function Read-Password {
param(
[String] $promptString
)
$secureString = Read-Host $promptString -AsSecureString
try {
$intPtr = [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($secureString)
$password = [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto($intPtr)
}
finally {
if ( $intPtr ) {
[Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ZeroFreeBSTR($intPtr)
}
}
$password
}
$password = Read-Password "Enter password"
if ( -not $password ) { return }
net use \\server1\share /user:foo $password
net use \\server2\share /user:foo $password
# ... etc.