Powershell - Save encrypted user and pass in a script? - powershell

Question

I have using a script in Powershell, which make a web request with user and password from an API. Since is a shared computer, for security reason, i want to encrypt the user and password.
this is the basic web request i have using (that i obtain from other question in stack overflow ):
$user = 'user'
$pass = 'pass'
$pair = "$($user):$($pass)"
$encodedCreds = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair))
$basicAuthValue = "Basic $encodedCreds"
$Headers = #{
Authorization = $basicAuthValue
}
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://whatever' -Headers $Headers
My issue is that i do not found a way to encrypt the user and password variables, try to use the ConvertTo-SecureString and convertTFrom-SecureString, but it does not work. i wanna know if there is a way to save the encrypted credentials in a file or other way. without need to saved as an environment variable and avoid getting credentials, since i wanna automatizes the script as a task.
Please comment any doubt.
Thanks for looking, happy coding.
Regards

Answer 1

If anyone in the future have the same issue as me, you can use the next tool in powershell, Export-Clixml and Import-Clixml:
$cred = Get-Credential | Export-CliXml -Path ..\cred.ps1.credentials
and then use import to access the credentials
$Credential = Import-CliXml -Path "..\cred.ps1.credentials"
now you have to added to the invoke-webrequest
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://whatever' -credentials $credential
Happy coding!