I'm trying to create a simple script which run a command and send the output to a variable.
this is the script:
$output = &"<Path to PLINK>\PLINK.exe" -ssh <username>#<IP Address> -pw <password> "my command"
the thing is the command im running is like "top" in linux - a task manager which won't quit until enter is being pressed.
how can i take the CLI output from that situation without touching my keyboard?
i wrote an automation with opening cmd and sending "keys" function inorder to get what i want but i cannot get the output from the CLI by doing so. (also i dont beleive its the right way.)
Thanks in advance.
As I saw in the following page:
Run As Admin
using the following code will run the programm PLINK.EXE for you.
$Username = 'Username'
$Password = 'Password'
$SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $Password -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($Username,$SecurePassword)
Start-Process powershell.exe -Credential $Credential -NoNewWindow -ArgumentList "(Start-Process -FilePath '\\some\path\app.exe' -ArgumentList '/q).ExitCode"
I solved my issue by installing POSH-SSH module for Powershell.
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how I can run this command in powershell to all users in the server?
powerShell -sta -file 'E:\Script-Popup\Popup-Message - Done.ps1'
that on every user who is currently connected to the server, this command will run.
Option 1:
Get connected users:
query user /server:SERVERNAME
For each user run:
$username = "username"
$password = "password"
$securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $username,
$securePassword
Start-Process powershell.exe -Credential $credential -ArgumentList "-file
$script"
Option 2:
Configure a logon script using a GPO (the script will run when the users login)
You don't need PowerShell for that (but you can use it with PowerShell)
msg * 'This will be shown to all users as a pop up'
MS Learn - Terminal Server commands: MSG
I am writing a script to deploy through group policy. The script deletes a number of registry settings to fix an issue we have on our build of Windows. The script needs to run as an administrator as the keys exist in hives that require admin rights to delete.
Because GP runs powershell scripts as the logged on user, I am looking at creating a wrapper which will read an encrypted password for the local user account and then run the script with it.
My script is able to read the credential, but I am getting errors when running the start-process command. If I try and reference the script it will give the error that the path doesn't exist, even though you can dump the contents using cat .
I then tried reading it into a variable and running powershell with the -command argument. If I do this I get an error.
"Start-Process : This command cannot be run due to the error: The parameter is incorrect"
I understand that I need to enclose the code in braces, but I am not sure how this is done as concatenating them to the string doesn't work.
if($connected) {
$Encrypted = Get-Content <PATH TO PASSWORD FILE>
$pass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $Encrypted -Key (1..16)
$user = <MY ADMIN ACCOUNT>
$Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $user, $pass
echo $(pwd)
echo $(cat <PATH TO SCRIPT>)
$code = $( cat <PATH TO SCRIPT> )
#Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {$code} -Credential $Credential
#Start-Process powershell.exe <PATH TO SCRIPT> -Credential $Credential
Start-Process powershell.exe -ArgumentList "-command $code" -Credential $Credential
}
I just need a way of executing the code in my second script, but I can't work out how to do this as it's not behaving as expected. Sorry, as I am sure I am missing something obvious.
I am trying to open an HTML file to a client "ClientA" that is locally copied to a folder "C:\1.html" remotely by executing the bellow powershell command
$Username = 'username'
$Password = 'password'
$pass = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $Password -Force
$Cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList
$Username,$pass
Invoke-Command -ComputerName ClientA -ScriptBlock { Invoke-Expression -
Command:"cmd.exe /c 'C:\1.bat'" } -credential $Cred
The "1.bat" batch has the bellow lines
START iexplore -k "C:\1.html"
I get no error on execution... but the file is not opening to the remote client!
Any ideas?
Thanks!
The script is correct, no errors within, but probably it is not doing what you believe it does.
When invoking a remote administration session powershell is working on the remote computer with its own session, which does not have desktop interaction so you are not launching internet explorer in the main shell from a session that an eventual user could have left logged in.
To double check that your code is working you can use the following content in the 1.bat
START iexplore -k "C:\1.html"
echo %PATH% >> c:\patlog.txt
echo "DONE" >> c:\1_log.txt
You will see the echo from the path and from the final "DONE" on your console as confirm that the bat has been executed.
Internet Explorer anyway is not going anyway to show up in any logged user session, as it is also discussed at this page:
https://serverfault.com/questions/690852/use-powershell-to-start-a-gui-program-on-a-remote-machine
I have a script that runs as SYSTEM, if i try to start-process notepad.exe it's working fine. if i add -credentials $cred it shows Access Denied. The credentials i pass over has local admin access, so why is there Access Denied? with procmon on powershell.exe i can not identify any access denied operation, i can see that powershell access notepad.exe with success result.
any ideas?
in one forum-post I read that it's not possible to execute a command with -credentials as SYSTEM. is that so?
if so, is there any workaround?
to my background, i use a software distribution where any installation runs as SYSTEM, from there i want to execute a powershell script as different user.
i found a solution:
$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString 'password' -AsPlainText -Force
$mycreds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ('domain\user', $secpasswd)
Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock { Start-Process powershell c:\temp\mmc.ps1 -verb runas -wait} -ComputerName localhost -Credential $mycreds -Verbose
its not exactly what i want because here you need to enable psremoting first. but its like a workaround.
any idea how this is possible without invoke-command would be appreciated
I can't wrap my head around this at all. I have a powershell script that works fine as long as the user has admin rights, because it is moving data to a NAS share that requires write permissions. My issue is I am putting the script in the GPO Startup process. So I need to run the powershell script as another user.
Do I somehow add the new user credentals inside the script itself, or use another process to runas the other user?
I've tried creating another .ps1 script to start the original script, but it didn't work.
I really want to be able to do this in the original script that's doing all the work.
$username = 'domain\user'
$password = 'password'
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList #($username,(ConvertTo-SecureString -String $password -AsPlainText -Force))
Start-Process -FilePath D:\Scripts\Monitor.ps1 -ComputerName localhost -Credential $cred
and I've tried:
Start-Process -FilePath D:\Scripts\Monitor.ps1 -ComputerName (NAS IP Address) -Credential $cred
This works fine inside a powershell script, so how do I get this to run as another user?
& D:\Scripts\monitor.ps1
We have decided to run this as a task under task scheduler at boot up run by a service account that has all the correct permissions. Not what I really wanted but it does work