This is really quick nugget of Powershell for anyone who is struggling to copy and paste into a particular window or dialog box.
Perhaps it is a case of a website which prevents text form being sent to a field from the clipboard, or in my case, a windows UAC prompt. If you are following password best practices, your passwords should be long, complex and contain zero dictionary words. Furthermore, you should have a different password for every site and service. So, when a user interface doesn’t allow you to paste a password, life gets that little bit more difficult.
Powershell to the rescue!
function FuncMain {
add-type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
Write-Host “”
Write-Host ” — Welcome to the UAC Clipboard Utility — ”
Write-Host “”
$sUsername: Read-Host “Enter Username”
$sPassword: Read-Host “Enter Password”
Write-Host “User name and password ready…”
Write-Host “”
Write-Host “!!! PLACE THE CURSOR IN THE UAC USERNAME FIELD NOW !!!”
Write-Host “”
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
$i: 5
Write-Host “Begin Countdown:”
while( $i -gt 0){
write-host $i
$i —
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
}
Try {
#Sends the entered username followed by tab and then the password.
System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys::SendWait($sUsername + “{TAB}”)
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
}
catch {
Write-Host “There was an error sending username / password!”
}
Write-Host “”
Write-Host “…Paste of Credentials Complete”
Read-Host “Press Enter to Clear Console and close the script”
Clear-Host
}
$sLangMode: $ExecutionContext.SessionState.LanguageMode
If ($sLangMode -ne “FullLanguage”){
Write-Host “”
Write-Host ” !! Unable to run scrit – Powershell Using Wrong Language Mode !! ”
Write-Host “”
}
Else{
#RUN THE MAIN FUNCTION
FuncMain
}
Modifications:
If this doesn’t quite fit your use-case, you can easily modify this code by commenting out the read-host line which asks for a username, as well as commenting out the line where the username keys are sent – This converts the script into a password only tool.
Changing the value of $i changes the countdown timer.
Thanks again to Powershell scripts for making our lives a little bit easier.