Besides writing plaintext passwords to a disk, an easy and innocent blunder is to store a password as a regular string in PowerShell. It might feel more secure because it is difficult to read PowerShell's memory indirectly, but PowerShell stores string variables in its memory in plain text....
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to make a plain text entry into a secure password. Is there a way I can use Windows PowerShell and my working script to make a secure string password without using Read-Host?Use the ConvertTo-SecureString cmdlet:$...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to easily decrypt the Windows PowerShell secure string password. Hey, Scripting Guy! We have an FTP site that I have to use on a regular basis. I need an easy way to get a credential and use that credential with the FTP site so ...
On Windows, run PowerShell as Administrator and navigate to the root of the cloned directory In PowerShell run: PowerShell Kopiraj Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope Process -Force Run the script to create your Azure AD application...
To upload a local access key into the Azure KMS, HP Client Management Script Library (HP CMSL) provides a PowerShell cmdlet, designed for this purpose and easy to use. NOTE: if the company choses the KMS method instead of provisioning the LAK Private key on the phone app (see next...
Duo uses a PowerShell script to collect logs. Current Limitations or Restrictions Zero Trust Access functionality is disabled when multiple users are logged in concurrently to an endpoint. No support for tunneling applications where server sends traffic first (ex:: ...
PowerShell Copy if (!(Test-ComputerSecureChannel)) { Write-Host "Connection failed. Reconnect and retry." } else { &(.\Get-Servers.ps1) }This example shows how to use Test-ComputerSecureChannel to test a connection before you run a script that requires the connection....
Fortunately, the authors of PowerShell had security in mind and essentially force you to be secure. The trick is, PSCredential requires a secure string for the password. This is why you see the cmdlet ConvertTo-SecureString as the second line in the above script. To understand what this ...
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There are other alternatives to this multiple reboot scenario. Each of these solutions could easily be placed into a Windows PowerShell script. Use netdom to reset the secure channel Netdom is a multipurpose toolthat started life as a resource kit utility. It grew up, and was added to the ...