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Answered Get-wmiobject prompting for password issues

  • Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:06 PM
     
     
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    hi, i am using get-wmiobject to connect to remote computer rand get some drive info using the following commmand 

    Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $computer -credential XYZ Win32_LogicalDisk | Where-Object {$_.DriveType -eq 3}

     

    running the above command prompts me for password, how can i stop the prompt and hardcode it in script...

     

    Thanks

    Saurabh

     

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  • Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:03 AM
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    Hi,

     

    Use the following scripts to store the password in a credential.

     

    #Store the password in credential#

     

    Read-host -assecurestring | convertfrom-securestring | out-file C:\cred.txt

    $password = get-content C:\cred.txt | convertto-securestring

    $credential = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "myusername",$password

     

    #Run the scripts to get drive info.

     

    Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $computer -credential $credential Win32_LogicalDisk | Where-Object {$_.DriveType -eq 3}

     

    Reference:

     

    Powershell Tip - Storing and Using Password Credentials

     

    Best Regards

    Dale

     

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