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PSCredential (function) in PS profile

Experts:
Good evening. If I could get this to work it'd sure be helpful. We have a platform exposed to a power-shell module to which we have to authenticate to. I put the following function in my power-shell profile:

function Set-DefaultCreds {
$passwd = ConvertTo-SecureString "mypasswd" -AsPlainText -Force
$creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("admin", $passwd)
}

Now...when I launch into a powershell session, I can type Set-Default [tab] and it auto-completes, however I get no value from "$creds"

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great week.

Aard Vark

Well the scope of $creds is local to the function. If you want to make it available globally in the script, you will need to make it have global scope.

function Set-DefaultCreds
{
   $passwd = ConvertTo-SecureString "mypasswd" -AsPlainText -Force
   $global:creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("admin", $passwd)
}

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function Set-DefaultCreds
{
   $passwd = ConvertTo-SecureString "mypasswd" -AsPlainText -Force
   $creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("admin", $passwd)
   return $creds
}

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Personally I would return the creds variable.

$creds = Set-DefaultCreds

Just_RC

ASKER

Sorry..swamped at work. No joy. The object isn't there on-boot, but I can call it as before....

From my profile:

function Set-DefaultCreds
      {
      $passwd = ConvertTo-SecureString "admin12345!" -AsPlainText -Force
      $creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("admin", $passwd)
      }
Set-DefaultCreds

Then from my session:
PS D:\> $creds
PS D:\> Set-DefaultFreds
PS D:\> $creds
PS D:\>

..but I set them through the GUI....
PS D:\> $creds
PS D:\> get-credential

cmdlet Get-Credential at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Credential

UserName Password
-------- --------
\admin System.Security.SecureString

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Aard Vark

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Just_RC

ASKER

Thanks...
I will add that line, but I'm almost sure I tried that before.

Will advise...and thank you again for your help.

Just_RC

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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for Just_RC's comment #a38389076

for the following reason:

return $creds within function did the trick.  Thank you.

Aard Vark

I'm confused was the answer provided or not?