For unattended scripts, it is generally unsafe and not recommended to hard-code secret passwords into a script.
As an alternative, you could ask for the password once, then create a credential object and use it wherever needed in your script. This part asks for a password, then constructs a credential object:
$password = Read-Host -AsSecureString -Prompt 'Enter Password' $username = 'myCompany\myUserName' $credential = New-Object -TypeName PSCredential($username, $password)
The credential object can then be used with any cmdlet that takes the -Credential parameter.
# use the credential with any cmdlet that exposes the –Credential parameter # to log in to remote systems Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -ComputerName SomeServer -Credential $credential
