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Powershell accessing to the desktop

Dear expert

Powershell: $env: USERPROFILE\desktop\folder\
now when I run it, it tells me a error that permission denied... ok weird... I don't use right to access my desktop? Now when I try and full path, it works well...

What is the problem?
Regards
WeTi

oBdA

When you run what exactly?
You need to be more specific about what it is you're trying to do and the exact error message you're getting.

WeTi

ASKER

Hi oBdA

Its a decryption script by calling openssl. the error I get is:

openssl.exe : Can't open C:\Users\weti\desktop\secret for reading, Permission denied

Function Decry {
$Input = "$env:USERPROFILE\desktop\secret"
$Output = "$env:USERPROFILE\desktop\secret"
$UniqueKey = '(stdin)= aef44983e90b10***4af1742a15***8942'
$KeyFile = "$env:USERPROFILE\desktop\secret"
$RandomkeyFileName = Get-Random
$KeyFileExtractPath = "$Env:APPDATA\Microsoft"
openssl.exe enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -d -in $KeyFile -out $KeyFileExtractPath\"$RandomkeyFileName.key" -k $UniqueKey
$ReadKey = Get-Content -Path $KeyFileExtractPath\"$RandomkeyFileName.key"
$AllFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $Input | ?{$_.Extension -eq $null -or $_.Extension -eq ""}
ForEach ($EachFile in $AllFiles){
$fullPath = $EachFile.FullName
$FileName = $EachFile.Name
    ForEach ($FileNameS in $ReadKey){
        $FileH,$FileN = $FileNameS.split(",",2)
       Write-Host "$FileH" -ForegroundColor Yellow
       Write-Host "$FileName" -ForegroundColor Green
            if($FileH -eq $FileName){
                Write-Host "Decrypted File : $FileN" -ForegroundColor Black -BackgroundColor White
                openssl.exe enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -d -in $fullPath -out $Output\$FileN -k $UniqueKey
            }
    }
}
Remove-Item $KeyFileExtractPath\"$RandomkeyFileName.key" -Force
}
Decry

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WeTi

ASKER

Thing is if I directly type:

$Input = 'C:\Users\weti\desktop\secret' This works... now because it will be a network shared script so env: must work tho...

WeTi

ASKER

now I lied... direct input didn't work as well, same problem

oBdA

Replace $Input with $SourceFolder or whatever. $Input is a default variable.

$input gotchas
https://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/input-gotchas/

WeTi

ASKER

Did, didn't help, same problem. Now I really dont know what the hell is going on... It worked before with direct path...