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I have a PC that my customer can access with a simple user. I have a server that can be accessed only by an administrator user from my company.

I would like to find a secure way to perform a restart of this server from the PC, without having to give too much administrator rights to my customer. I want to avoid my customer to be able to login on my server.

I've thought about :

  • Script (batch or anything else) but I don't want to write my login/pwd within my scripts, so it doesn't look like it's a good idea...

Here is a software that allows me to do this but I have to write my login/pwd within my script file. I don't want that !

  • Any existing application that would do the trick ?
  • Something else I didn't think of ?

Edit :
My customer should be able to perform this operation very simply without having to know any administrator account of the server.

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you only want to shutdown the computer? create a .bat file that executes the command "SHUTDOWN -r -t 01"(restart) or "SHUTDOWN -s -t 01"(shutdown) – ClydeFrog Sep 26 '12 at 13:52
I need a login/pwd to perform a remote shutdown using this technic... I don't want to write my logins in a text file... – Andy M Sep 26 '12 at 13:54
create a "server" which is listening after authentic information and put it on the customers PC. When the server gets the valid authentic information it shutsdown the computer. Be creative.... – ClydeFrog Sep 26 '12 at 14:00
or you can shutdown a remote host by executing this "shutdown \\host -s -t 01" – ClydeFrog Sep 26 '12 at 14:02
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You could create a simple web app that runs on the server and calls local scripts or programs. – Sean C. Sep 26 '12 at 14:15
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