McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent Commandline Install Password in Plain Text

["Jack Cullen" <jack_cullen () hotmail com>]

 Hardly earthshaking but the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent install 
process leaves the account and password info in plain text in the install 
log file. When the agent is installed via the command line using:

framepkg.exe /install=agent /username=<username> /password=<password>

the info can be found at:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local 
Settings\Temp\NAILogs\FrmInst_servername.log

If logon credentials are embedded into the install executable via the Admin 
Console (and no command line parameters used) then the username and password 
show up in the same log file as above however the password is encrypted. I 
don't know how well it is encrypted but I'm confident someone can knock it 
off.

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