The public PowerShell Gallery (www.powershellgallery.com) is a place where PowerShell scripters can freely exchange scripts and modules. All you need is PowerShell 5 with PowerShellGet which provides you with the cmdlets required to interact with the Gallery.
Of course, you are responsible for checking code and making sure it runs flawlessly and does not contain security issues.
One of the available modules is called “PSCredentialManager”. Here is how to find more information about this module:
PS> Find-Module -Name PSCredentialManager | Select-Object -Property * Name : pscredentialmanager Version : 1.0.1 Type : Module Description : This module allows management and automation of Windows cached credentials. Author : Adam Bertram CompanyName : adamtheautomator Copyright : (c) 2017 Adam Bertram. All rights reserved. PublishedDate : 18.06.2017 22:14:27 ...
To install the module, run this:
PS> Install-Module -Name PSCredentialManager -Scope CurrentUser -RequiredVersion 0.6
Note that we explicitly ask to install version 0.6. At the time of writing, there was also a version 1.0.1 available which turned out to have some issues. When you retrieve content from a public place like the PowerShell Gallery, always expect the unexpected, and be careful.
If you want to examine the code before you install a module, you can also use Save-Module, and download the module to a quarantine place.
PS> Find-Module pscredentialmanager -AllVersions Version Name Repository Description ------- ---- ---------- ----------- 1.0.1 pscredentialmanager PSGallery This module allows 0.6 pscredentialmanager PSGallery This module allows 0.2 pscredentialmanager PSGallery This module allows
Once installed, this command gives you a list of new cmdlets:
PS> Get-Command -Module pscredentialmanager CommandType Name Version Source ----------- ---- ------- ------ Function Get-CachedCredential 0.6 pscredentialmanager Function New-CachedCredential 0.6 pscredentialmanager Function Remove-CachedCredential 0.6 pscredentialmanager
You can now easily manage cached credentials. To dump a list of cached credentials, for example, try this:
PS> Get-CachedCredential Name : SSO_POP_User Category : MicrosoftAccount Type : Domain Extended Credentials (...)
And if you are curious to see how the new cmdlets (aka functions) work, you can take a look at the source code, too. This line copies the function source code to the clipboard:
PS> ${function:Get-CachedCredential} | clip
To get rid of the module again, uninstall it:
PS> Uninstall-Module -Name pscredentialmanager -AllVersions
