To get and store the credential for the current user

Posted by IsaacBlum at 18 February 2010

Category: Business, For The Greater Good, Free Help, Microsoft, PowerShell

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Thank sean.

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$notespw = Read-Host "Enter the password for the Notes ID file" -AsSecureString
$notespw | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Set-Content $pwfile -force

To retrieve the password and create the PSCredential object:

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$notespw = get-content $pwfile | ConvertTo-SecureString
$notesid = new-object -typename system.management.automation.pscredential -argumentlist "-default-",$notespw

Example of use:

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Get-DominoMailbox mary@contoso.com -SourceCredential $notesid

2 Comments

  1. account money says (27.02.2010 at 12:55 am):

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  2. Ryan Witschger says (24.12.2010 at 8:25 pm):

    Excellent write-up! I doscovered while working with this that the password stored is encrypted using a credential attached to your Windows login, so if another account tries to read the file it will fail. I was attempting to allow unpriviledged users to run a script with elevated privledges. To make it work you have to supply the encryption string to the convert-securestring statement.

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