But I cannot take that securestring and deploy it to thousands of workstations. Its only valid on the machine/account its created on/with.
Daniel Ratliff From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 11:09 AM To: scripting@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [scripting] PowerShell to store password securely in a script? $Test = Read-Host -AsSecureString $Test | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File "c:\test.txt" This will give you the encrypted password. To use that password, you just need to store it to a variable and use COnvertTo-SecureString On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Daniel Ratliff <dratl...@humana.com<mailto:dratl...@humana.com>> wrote: I feel like I am missing something glaringly obvious here. I have two requirements: 1. Store the password in the script, but not in plain text 2. Use a single script with nothing external Is there no way with PowerShell to store an encrypted password in a script and re-use that on multiple machines? Daniel Ratliff The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information.
