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Stop typing PowerShell credentials in demos using PowerShell SecretManagement

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Apr 14, 2021
We all sometimes create presentations with some PowerShell demos. And often, we need to use credentials to log in to systems for example PowerShell when delivering these presentations. This can lead ...
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Apr 14, 2021

Also have a similar question as ChuckFinley 

 

From a quick review of this, if I am going to use this in automation I still need to to keep the Vault password somewhere, i.e in a XML document. What has been missed from this document is that if you open up a fresh PowerShell window, when you run the first Get/Set-Secret it asks for a password.

thomasmaurer - Thoughts around using this when you have a "scheduled task" machine running your scripts?