Powershell – Check if User Password Input is Valid

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I am working with a Powershell script that adds scheduled tasks to systems in our domain. When I run this script, it will prompt me for my password. I sometimes fat finger the password and the process starts, which locks out my account. Is there a way to verify my credentials to make sure that what I typed in will validate with the Domain?

I'd like to find a way to query the Domain controller. I've done some Google searches and I should be able to do a WMI query and trap for an error. I would like to avoid that style of validation if possible.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

I have this in my library:

$cred = Get-Credential #Read credentials
 $username = $cred.username
 $password = $cred.GetNetworkCredential().password

 # Get current domain using logged-on user's credentials
 $CurrentDomain = "LDAP://" + ([ADSI]"").distinguishedName
 $domain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry($CurrentDomain,$UserName,$Password)

if ($domain.name -eq $null)
{
 write-host "Authentication failed - please verify your username and password."
 exit #terminate the script.
}
else
{
 write-host "Successfully authenticated with domain $domain.name"
}
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