Issues with credentials stored with Export-CliXml

Bojan Zivkovic 606

Hi, I am having issues with credentials stored with Export-CliXml:

$credxmlpath = "C:\Temp\mycredential.xml"

$cred = Import-Clixml -Path $credxmlpath

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName ServerName -Credential $cred

Enter-PSSession: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'Credential'. userName

What can be wrong here? I am not a local admin on my laptop just to note here if important.

Rich Matheisen 47,901 Reputation points

2025-03-03T15:51:33.6766667+00:00

A saved credential can only be decrypted by the same user that encrypted it. Further, the encrypted credential is only valid on the same machine that encrypted it.

Are you the running your code as the same user, and on the same machine, as the user that created the credential?
Bojan Zivkovic 606 Reputation points

2025-03-03T19:01:44.9966667+00:00

Yes, same user, same machine. However, I saw this:

$cred | gm

TypeName: Deserialized.System.Management.Automation.PSCredential

So, after casting it now works fine:

$cred = [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential] $cred

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName ServerName -Credential $cred

[ServerName]: PS C:>

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