RememberPassword: Prompt the user for a password and store it for later use

In cpbonnell/winlockr: Store sensitive data in a user-specific encrypted locker

Description

Store the user's password on disk in an encrypted form. This encrypted form can only be decrypted when the user is logged into their Windows account. Other users cannot decrypt it even if they have access to the hard drive with administrator privileges.

Usage

RememberPassword(user, application = NA, expiration.date = NA,
  expiration.duration = NA)

Arguments

user	The username associated with the password
expiration.date	Coercible to a datetime object of the form "y-m-d h:m:s"
expiration.duration	A names list indicating the number of days, hours, and minutes until the password should expire
applicaiton	The application that the username and password should be used for

Details

Encryption is done using 3DES with a 128 bit salt to protect password privacy across multiple systems even if they use the same password.

cpbonnell/winlockr documentation built on May 28, 2019, 7:47 p.m.