Elevation and credential object from one 'credentials' request

[mark106]

Hi.

Is there a way to elevate a PowerShell Studio built .EXE and get those same credentials (used to elevate) into a PScredential object for use within the script?

I currently have a project that needs to run elevated, but it also requires the credentials for some futher operations. I am currently embedding the manifest for elevation (which, in practice, is prompting the (standard) users for "admin" creds) and then I have to prompt for the ("admin") password again in order to have those credentials available within the script.

The only other way I can think to do this is to create a small ("launcher") exe that takes in the creds, launches the actual exe elevated - using something like ........

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1. Start-Process powershell.exe -Credential $cred -WindowStyle Hidden -Args '-noprofile', '-command', "Start-Process 'D:\psGUI.exe' -Verb RunAs"

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.... and then passes the credentials to it - which, as I understand it, can only be done as a string - is that right?

Is there a better, more elegant, way to this?

Thanks

Product: PowerShell Studio 2020 (64 Bit)
Build: v5.7.182
OS: Windows 7 Professional (64 Bit)
Build: v6.1.7601.65536

[jvierra]

You cannot do what you ask. You cannot pass an object as a string.

[mark106]

Indeed. So that approach would need the password to be passed as a string (encrypted) so that a PScredential object could be created in the "main" .exe.

However, is this approach (to get credentials and elevation) the right way - or is there a better method?

Thanks

[jvierra]

That seems about right.