When you create a Scheduled Task in Windows, it gives you the option of running the task as a different user, including saving the password.
How secure is the password that is stored?
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To my reckoning, it must either store the password as plain text (probably not that likely), or reversibly-encrypted (which really reduces to security-by-obfuscation), but perhaps I have missed something.– HutchApr 10, 2014 at 19:24
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I have not verified that, but the obvious way on windows would be to use CryptProtectData with CRYPTPROTECT_LOCAL_MACHINE.
At least that is the way passwords are stored in SQL Server Management Studio... reversable... ;-)
answered Apr 10, 2014 at 19:41
