Being asked for password using "boot to xp" terminal server command

Question

I have XP partitioned on my Mac and I've always used a command shortcut I found on the internet that I put into terminal server called "boot to xp." I click on the alias I created, click "run" and it re-boots the system into xp.
Now, I click on the alias, click run, and I receive a prompt asking me for a password with a message stating "type your password to allow boot to xp to make changes."
I'm not sure what I've done to cause this but I'd like to turn it off. I had two accounts on this mac...one I use all the time and one called "admin." I never used the "admin" and had "admin rights" on this account so I deleted the one I called "admin" when this problem started. That didn't help.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

Answer 1

you know it's not a great idea to put your admin password in plain text form in the script. here is the script I use
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title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
property target_username : ""
property target_userpassword : ""
property bootcamp_drive : ""
on open these_items
set bootcamp_drive to quoted form of POSIX path of (item 1 of these_items)
display dialog "Enter the name of an admin account as  it appears in the Accounts menu:" default answer target_username
set the target_username to the text returned of the result
display dialog "Enter the password for that account:" default answer "" with hidden answer
set the target_userpassword to the text returned of the result
end open
on run
do shell script "bless -mount " & bootcamp_drive & " -legacy -setBoot -nextonly" user name target_username password target_userpassword with administrator privileges
tell application "System Events" to restart
end run</pre>
save it as an application.
first, drop the bootcamp drive onto the script You only need to do this once). it will prompt you for you admin name and password. now you can simply run the app to reboot into windows. the password will be stored in the script but at least it's not simply entered there in plain text form as you did. It's still possible to get the password out of my script too but it requires a bit more skill.