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Accessing Windows Credential Manager from PowerShell
Windows don’t have built-in cmdlets to access the PasswordVault store from PowerShell, But you can use
the CredentialManager module from the PowerShell gallery.
Install the module:
Install Module CredentiaiManager
You can display a list of cmdlets in the CredentialManager module:
Get-Command -nodule CredentialManager
ccs
The module has only 4 cmdlets:
# Get-storedcredential ~ to get credentials from the Windows Vault;
= Get-strongPassword — to generate a random password;
= New-Storedcredential — to add credentials;
1" Renove-StoredCredential ~ to remove credentials.
In order to add new credentials to the Windows Credential Manager, run this command:
New-StoredCrecential -Target ‘woshub' -Type Generic -UserNlane ‘maxbak@[Link]’ Password "Pass321-b' -
Persist ‘LocalMachine’
‘To make sure if any saved user credentials exist in the Credential Manager:
Get-Storedcredential -Target woshub You can use saved passwords from the Credential Manager in your PowerShell scripts. For example, I can get a
saved name and password from the Windows Vault as a PSCredential object and connect to Exchange Online
from PowerShell
$psCred = Get-StoredCredential -Target “woshub”
Connect-HSolService -Credential $pscred
Also, note 2 new PowerShell Secret Management module you can use to securely store passwords in
Windows. It supports a number of password vaults: KeePass, LastPass, HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key
Vault, Bitwarden.
To remove credentials from Windows Vault, run this command:
Renove-StoredCredential -Tanget woshub
You cannot display passwords as plain text using built-in CLI tools, But, you can use Mimikatz-like utilities to get
saved passwords from credman_as plain text (see the example here).
