Vista - How to pass credentials?

actually when we use get-wmiobject we pass the remote computer name but

sometimes we need the user credentials to logon to that computer . But how to

pass on the credetilas in get-wmiobject command

Hi,

If I understand properly you want to pass your credentials to the
target computer from within the gwmi cmdlet?

If so,

gwmi -computername . -credentials "Administrator"

Will result in the username "Administrator" being presented and an
authentication dialog popped up for you to enter
the corresponding password. Note the period after the -computername
parameter to signify the local machine. Thats about it AFAIK.

It's also possible to send a credential "object" that can be
synthesised via the get-credential cmdlet, but I've never even tried
that personally.

help get-wmiobject -detailed

would be a good place to start.

Good luck,
Stuart

On Aug 20, 5:44*pm, Kryten <Kryte...@xxxxxx> wrote:Check out this posting:
http://blogs.technet.com/robcost/arc...edentials.aspx
if you want to persist the creds.

On Aug 20, 4:19*pm, how to display variable value?
<howtodisplayvariableva...@xxxxxx> wrote:I know when I write scripts that involve credentials i usually just do
the following instead of getting prompted every time i do a WMI query
in a loop or something like that.

Example:

$cred = Get-cred domain\user
#when i need to pass it i will just do the following on the gwmi
command as Kryten pointed out.
gwmi -computername pc1 -cred $cred

I find this works well if everything has the same credentials. You
could even do some logic to use one cred and if it doesn't work use
another.

I hope this helps,

PeterCS