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Secure credentials within PowerShell

For PowerShell scripts that need to access resources (e.g. a site within SharePoint) and be run as scheduled tasks, I will normally use an encrypted password… Read-Host "Enter Password" -AsSecureString | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File "$PSScriptRoot\Password.txt" … and then refer to it within my script. $username = "me@domain.co.uk" $password = Get-Content "$PSScriptRoot\Password.txt" $securePassword = $password | ConvertTo-SecureString […]

For PowerShell scripts that need to access resources (e.g. a site within SharePoint) and be run as scheduled tasks, I will normally use an encrypted password…

Read-Host "Enter Password" -AsSecureString | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File "$PSScriptRoot\Password.txt"

… and then refer to it within my script.

$username = "me@domain.co.uk"
$password = Get-Content "$PSScriptRoot\Password.txt"

$securePassword = $password | ConvertTo-SecureString
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential( $username, $securePassword )

This <a href="https://blog.kloud.com.au/2016/04/21/using-saved-credentials-securely-in-powershell-scripts/">blog post by Kloud</a> covers some this technique in greater detail.