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Hello guys,

I have developed a stored procedure that create linked server. The problem is:
to crearte the linked server I need to pass user and password. How can I pass user and password in a encrypted way.
I think that if the stored proc execute: addlinkedserver procedures with user and password, these are readable to everybody with sniffer or SQL profile.

How can I pass encrypted password to SQL server engine to create a linked server?

Thank

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