Remote Desktop - Credentials in plain text in Client

Carlos De Los Rios 1 Reputation point
2022-04-24T17:29:37.047+00:00

Hi

When a server is accessed via RDP from a PC, the credentials (user, password) remain stored (plain text) in the PC's lsass.exe process throughout the RDP session. Is there any chance to avoid this behavior without using "Credential Guard"? I want to avoid that a lsass dump (during RDP session) shows credentials in plain text

Thanks

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  1. risolis 8,701 Reputation points
    2022-04-25T02:44:14.58+00:00

    Hello @Carlos De Los Rios

    Thank you for posting your concern.

    I wonder if you have considered the following option below:

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/dn781533(v=ws.11)

    BR,

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  2. Carlos De Los Rios 1 Reputation point
    2022-04-25T09:31:22.737+00:00

    Hi

    We don't use RDS infrastructure. We connecto to windows server with RDP client directly