2. Open the Task Manager. Show the command line by going to View --> Select Columns... and making sure "Command Line" is checked.
3. You can see the password exposed, as in the screenshot.
1. Launch a mongod with a sslPEMKeyFile that requires a password. Provide the password through sslPEMKeyPassword.
mongod --sslMode sslOnly --sslPEMKeyFile libs/client_password.pem --sslCAFile libs/ca_377.pem --sslPEMKeyPassword "asdf" --dbpath data/db
2. Open the Task Manager. Show the command line by going to View --> Select Columns... and making sure "Command Line" is checked.
3. You can see the password exposed, as in the screenshot.
Description
The argument to sslPEMKeyPassword can be revealed through the task manager on Windows. See the screenshot.