Securely creating fixlets to update OS user passwords

If using the REST API, you can pass Secure Parameters in a Sourced Fixlet Action.

Here’s and example of running fixlet ID 4057 from the master action site

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<BES xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="BES.xsd"> 
<SourcedFixletAction> 
<SourceFixlet> 
<Sitename>ActionSite</Sitename> 
<FixletID>4057</FixletID> 
<Action>Action1</Action> 
</SourceFixlet> 
<Target> 
<ComputerID>15875486</ComputerID> 
</Target> 
<Parameter Name="username">user</Parameter>  
<SecureParameter Name="password">pass</SecureParameter>  
</SourcedFixletAction> 
</BES>
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