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Now I want to see what was generated before I insert it into my keepass database.
How do I do that?
I've tried this and you can see the error I get:
[Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($pwd) )
Cannot convert argument "s", with value: "KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedString", for "SecureStringToBSTR" to type
"System.Security.SecureString": "Cannot convert the "KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedString" value of type
"KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedString" to type "System.Security.SecureString"."
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Found a function that will do what I wanted:
function ConvertFrom-KPProtectedString
{
<*
.SYNOPSIS
This function will Convert a KeePass ProtectedString to Plain Text.
.DESCRIPTION
This function will convert a KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedString to plain text
This would primarily be used for reading Title, Username, Password, Notes and URL ProtectedString values.
.EXAMPLE
PS>Get-KeePassPassword -UpperCase -LowerCase -Digits -SpecialCharacters -Length 21 | ConvertFrom-KeePassProtectedString
This example will create a password using the specified options and convert the resulting password to a string
.PARAMETER KeePassProtectedString
This is the KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedString to be converted to plain text
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
[OutputType([String])]
param
(
[Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory, ValueFromPipeline, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName)]
[ValidateNotNull ()] [KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedString] $KeePassProtectedString
)
process
{
$KeePassProtectedString.ReadString()
}
}
I've issued this command:
$pwd= New-KeePassPassword -UpperCase -LowerCase -Digits -ExcludeLookAlike -Length 20
Now I want to see what was generated before I insert it into my keepass database.
How do I do that?
I've tried this and you can see the error I get:
[Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($pwd) )
Cannot convert argument "s", with value: "KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedString", for "SecureStringToBSTR" to type
"System.Security.SecureString": "Cannot convert the "KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedString" value of type
"KeePassLib.Security.ProtectedString" to type "System.Security.SecureString"."
At line:1 char:1
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