title: Activating Remote Desktop Connection on Windows 7 Ultimate Without Sharing Password
body: <p>I'm a student away from home and I need to access my home computer with Remote Desktop Connection. I have a privileged user account on that machine, and I could tell my family to enable RDP, but I don't want them to know my password.</p>
  
  <p>I assume I can make a .reg file to activate RDP, but this could require administrative privilege, which my family's user accounts don't have.</p>
  
  <p>My idea is to send them a script wich they run and RDP gets activated. I would make a batch file and embed it into some Delphi or python executable, just not to store the password in plain text. Security is not a major concern, but I don't want them to look into my documents (they don't know linux live usb or cds).</p>
  
  <p>I tried <code>echo password&amp;&amp;echo.|runas /user:myusername regedit</code> to pass it the password but it returns "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password".</p>
  
  <p>Trying <code>runas</code> providing the correct password by hand returns: The requested operation requires elevation.</p>
  
  <p>Someone has an idea?</p>