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philrobeson
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Posted - 06/09/2011 :  2:47:22 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We use a lot of Extended characters in passwords on our service accounts. I have a script that can change the service account password, but I've yet to figure out, via code, how to put extended characters in there. For example, the line of code I use in my script that changes the password is this:

$objUser.psbase.invoke("SetPassword", 'JoeBobBilly')

However, let's say I'd like it to start with é (which is <Alt>130
How do I do this in the above code?

I did search the web and can't find anything. I sent the "scriptiing guys" this same question last week and they've not answered...anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
Phil Robeson
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jhicks
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Posted - 06/09/2011 :  4:37:06 PM  Show Profile  Visit jhicks's Homepage  Reply with Quote
In PowerShell you can use the [CHAR] class. For example, to get <alt>130 in PowerShell you would type: [char]233

Here's a one line command to list all the characters up to 512

1..512 | foreach {"{0} = {1}" -f $_, ($_ -as [char])}

Once you know the character values, you can build a password. Here's one way:

PS E:\> $pass=""
PS E:\> 0..7 | foreach {$pass+=([char](Get-random -min 160 -max 200))}
PS E:\> $pass
³±¯»¾¥Ã£

Now, you would still need to know the ALT equivalent so you can enter it. But you can use Charmap.exe to figure that out.
Jeffery Hicks
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philrobeson
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Posted - 06/10/2011 :  08:16:06 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
AWESOME! Thanks, Jeff!!
Phil Robeson
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