Thanks to Jaap Brasser’s finding, here is an easy way of encrypting a bunch of credentials:
$CredPath = "$home\Desktop\mycreds.xml" $creds = @{ Local = Get-Credential -Message LocalAccount Remote = Get-Credential -Message RemoteAccount Domain = Get-Credential -Message DomainAccount } $creds | Export-Clixml -Path $OutPath
To read in these credentials, use this:
$CredPath = "$home\Desktop\mycreds.xml" $creds = Import-Clixml -Path $CredPath $creds.Local $creds.Remote $creds.Domain # example Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_BIOS -ComputerName server1 -Credential $creds.Remote
Note that the passwords are safely encrypted with your identity and the machine identity, so you can read in the credentials only on the machine where they were generated, and only if you are the same person that saved them.
