Using the Kix Script Tokenize option to Obsfucate Passwords

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If you want to check if your PPTP VPN Server is alive and responding via a script you can run the standard windows rasdial command from a windows batch file:

rasdial entryname username password

However to do this you the have to include a username and password in the batch file which may be a tad insecure.

A better approach although not entirely secure is to use Kix to script the rasdial connection and then tokenize it:

For example say you create the following and call it checkVPN.kix:

$VPNCON="theHostnameOrIPaddressOfYourVPNServer"

; set user and pass in your kix file
$USER=xxxxxxxxx
$PW=xxxxxxxxxxx
					
? "Connecting to $VPNCON"
shell "rasdial $VPNCON $USER $PW"

Then you get a command prompt up and use kix32.exe to tokenize it thusly:

kix32.exe /t checkVPN.kix

The above command will output a file named checkVPN.KX with content not readable to humans:

Sample of tokenized content

Sample of tokenized content

You then can launch that tokenized script using a windows batch file with the following syntax:

@ECHO OFF
set PATH=%0\..\;%PATH%
REM echo %PATH%
%0\..\Kix32.exe %0\..\checkVPN.KX

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