Question

I have a script to get and set user’s Windows environment variables on other computers for a given user. Is it possible to hard code the password for this user so that I don’t have to type it every time I run the script?

My script looks something like this:

$s5 = New-PSSession -computername testauto2, testauto3 -Credential
Domain\testautouser

invoke-command -session $s5[0] -scriptblock {[Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("TestBrowser", "user")}

Answer 1

Yep – you can totally do this as long as you are comfortable with the security implications (a PW in a file somewhere)…

Here’s an example:

 $pw = convertto-securestring -AsPlainText -Force -String <insert pw here>
 $cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "Domain\User",$pw
 $session = new-pssession -computername <computer> -credential $cred