Hi,
I'm trying to write a cmdlet that takes the user name and password as input and authenticates a user. Is there a way in which I can show only *'s or #'s instead of showing the characters in the password? I tried using SecureString object but that does not work when the password is specified as a command line parameter. Pls suggest other ways..

Thanks,
ramz_g

You can prompt the user for his credentials using Get-Credential and get access to username+password (in plain text) so you can pass it along:


$creds = Get-Credential

# get the user name
$creds.GetNetworkCredential().UserName

# get the user password
$creds.GetNetworkCredential().Password

Hi Shay,
Thanks a lot for your reply.. I am a beginner to powershell and I was just wondering if the user can be prompted for his credentials only when a specific condition occurs... Consider a cmdlet "copy-myfile" that copies a file from one location to another... I would want to prompt the user for the credentials only when he tries to copy a file into another computer on the network. Could you pls tell me how this can be achieved?

Thanks,
ramz_g

You can create a condition where the destination is name starts with "\\", for example:

function copy-myfile{
param($path,$destination)

if($destination.startsWith("\\")){
"user is trying to copy to remote location, prompt for credentials..."
} else{
...
}
}

Hi Shay,

Thanks for the reply... So every thing can be done only using powershell scripts? I was wondering if this can be achieved using C# code. I'm using C# to create custom cmdlets and I'm hunting for the way in which I can prompt for parameters only when required. Is this possible in C# code?

Thanks,
ramz_g

Sorry, I'm not a dev guy.

Oh okay.. Thanks for your help anyways... :-)