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Here’s how to display asterisks when typing passwords in Bash.
#!/bin/bash unset password prompt="Enter Password:" while IFS= read -p "$prompt" -r -s -n 1 char do if [[ $char == $'\0' ]] then break fi prompt='*' password+="$char" done echo echo "Done. Password=$password" |
#!/bin/bash unset password prompt="Enter Password:" while IFS= read -p "$prompt" -r -s -n 1 char do if [[ $char == $'\0' ]] then break fi prompt='*' password+="$char" done echo echo "Done. Password=$password"
Instead of the GCP Console, you can reset Windows Server password via gcloud.
gcloud compute reset-windows-password server-name \ --zone us-central1-a \ --project project-id |
gcloud compute reset-windows-password server-name \ --zone us-central1-a \ --project project-id
Username and password will generated.
How to reset password of a GCP Compute Engine running on Windows OS.
gcloud compute reset-windows-password servername \ --zone us-central1-a \ --project your-project-id |
gcloud compute reset-windows-password servername \ --zone us-central1-a \ --project your-project-id
Output
This command creates an account and sets an initial password for the user [firstname_lastname] if the account does not already exist. If the account already exists, resetting the password can cause the LOSS OF ENCRYPTED DATA secured with the current password, including files and stored passwords. For more information, see: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/operating-systems/windows#reset Would you like to set or reset the password for [firstname_lastname] (Y/n)? y Resetting and retrieving password for [firstname_lastname] on [servername] Updated [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/your-project-id/zones/us-central1-a/instances/servername]. WARNING: Instance [servername] does not appear to have an external IP address, so it will not be able to accept external connections. To add an external IP address to the instance, use gcloud compute instances add-access-config. password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx username: firstname_lastname |
This command creates an account and sets an initial password for the user [firstname_lastname] if the account does not already exist. If the account already exists, resetting the password can cause the LOSS OF ENCRYPTED DATA secured with the current password, including files and stored passwords. For more information, see: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/operating-systems/windows#reset Would you like to set or reset the password for [firstname_lastname] (Y/n)? y Resetting and retrieving password for [firstname_lastname] on [servername] Updated [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/your-project-id/zones/us-central1-a/instances/servername]. WARNING: Instance [servername] does not appear to have an external IP address, so it will not be able to accept external connections. To add an external IP address to the instance, use gcloud compute instances add-access-config. password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx username: firstname_lastname