using password out of saved credentials

THORSTEN_KRAUSE — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:52:23 GMT

Hello,

can you tell me how to get the password out of Get-WfaCredentials return value?

$myCredentials = Get-WfaCredentials -Host "X100X" -ErrorAction stop

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Thorsten

Re: using password out of saved credentials

sinhaa — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:18:55 GMT

In the command "Send Email" There is a function defined which can tell you how to do it.

function ConvertFromSecureToPlain{

param(

[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]

[System.Security.SecureString] $SecurePassword

)

# Create a &quot;password pointer&quot;

$PasswordPointer = [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($SecurePassword)

# Get the plain text version of the password

$PlainTextPassword = [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto($PasswordPointer)

# Free the pointer

[Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ZeroFreeBSTR($PasswordPointer)

# Return the plain text password

$PlainTextPassword

}

Call this using something like:

$myPassword = ConvertFromSecureToPlain -SecurePassword $myCredentials.Password

THORSTEN_KRAUSE — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 06:32:41 GMT

thanks ver ymuch !