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PowerShell - How to create a PSCredential object

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Several PowerShell commandlets take a PSCredential object to run using a particular user account. You can create the PSCredential object by using Get-Credential commandlet which opens a dialog to enter the username and password. This way of entering credentials can be used in an interactive mode.

$mycredentials = Get-Credential

When you have to provide credentials in non-interactive mode, you can create a PSCredential object in the following way.

$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString "PlainTextPassword" -AsPlainText -Force
$mycreds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("username", $secpasswd)

You can now pass $mycreds to any -PSCredential input parameter

* You may not want to reveal PlainTextPassword for your personal accounts as a general precaution. Use a common user account and password that everyone knows for your non-interactive PSCredential usage.

* Tested with PowerShell 2.0

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  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2010
    Many thanks - just what I was looking for!

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2011
    So the “PlainTextPassword” is still in plain text in a file somewhere? So not secure at all really?

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2011
    Thanks for this article. I was struggling for a while with the PSCredential object as it was giving me an incorrect password error. Finally I used the Get-Credential and that worked great. Which made me dig back and see why the creating of PSCredential via non-interactive did not work. Finally realized that I had a $ sign in my password which may have been confusing powershell to think it was a variable. I am sure there is a way to escape the $ sign but I'll deal with it another day.

  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2012
    @jacobUT The way to "escape the $ sign" is to use the grave-accent() .  On English keyboards it is the button to the left of the (1) key & above the (Tab) key. Typically is also has a tilda (~) above it. The ( ) character is escape character for all powershell. It says "Ignore the special meanding of the next character & treat it like a normal character. Similar function to the "" characger in C++ & C# code. eg: to put quotes within a string your use $MyQuote = "He said "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me you rears" to the audience"

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2013
    I have networkCredential object. Can i convert it to PSCredential object in  order to connect to PowerShell.?

  • Anonymous
    December 03, 2013
    Just as an additional comment you can add credentials as stored encrypted strings.  Still not perfect but a good addition that I use. [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential]$Credential = (new-object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList ('SomeAccount', (ConvertTo-SecureString -String (Import-Clixml C:SecString.xml) -Key (Import-Clixml C:SomePreSharedKey.xml)))) Of course that's assuming you encrypted a string in advance using a key that you recorded in a CliXML export.  

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2014
    Thank you for the clear and concise snippet!

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2014
    Is there a way to store that $mycreds object for later use?

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2015
    Thank you for sharing! This article is very useful to me

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2015
    Helping article. "Get-Credential" won't work if you compile your ps1 to exe. Below Code, did the trick for me. ====================================================== $user = Read-Host "Enter UserName" $passwd = Read-Host "Enter Password" -AsSecureString $passwd = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($passwd)) $secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString "$passwd" -AsPlainText -Force $creden = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("$user", $secpasswd) =======================================================