public/ScriptProcessing/Get-Secret.ps1
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function Get-Secret { <# .SYNOPSIS Reads secure strings from hkcu. .COMPONENT ScriptProcessing .DESCRIPTION The function becomes handy, if you need eg. passwords or api-key in your script, but you don't want to save them in the script. .EXAMPLE $password = Get-Secret 'myProject' 'myPassword' Gets the password earlier saved from the registry and sets $password as SecureString #> [CmdletBinding()] param ( [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()][string]$projectName, [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()][string]$Name, [switch]$AsPlainText = $false ) process { if ((Get-ItemProperty "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\pageBOX\Secret\$projectName\" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).PSObject.Properties.Name -contains $Name) { $value = (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\Software\pageBOX\Secret\$projectName" -Name $Name -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).$Name | ConvertTo-SecureString } else { throw "$Name not found in $projectName" } if ($AsPlainText) { return (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential 0, $value).GetNetworkCredential().Password } return $value } } |