Friday, May 25, 2012

Sherlock Holmes: Secret of encrypted PowerShell Script files.. Password Protect .PS1 files using VIM.

 

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Hi,

This article is quite off from my regular PowerShell topic, but it's fun doing it .  So the situation is like that, One of my friend wrote a Powershell script but someone he wants to encrypt or password protected so that on one else {his fellow colleagues who just believes in COPYING & PASTING and make no efforts to learning technologies} use it, copy it .

When is asked me this question, i was not sure what to do,,as i always believe is sharing...then VIM come to my mind and in my one previous article i also mentioned about vim in this blog. You can find the article here:

 http://newdelhipowershellusergroup.blogspot.in/2011/11/hi-i-hope-some-of-you-know-about-what.html

Let's start.

so we have a enc.ps1 file in D drive and that file contains a two line script.

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run the script , So all is good... we have a script file and that file is running successfully.

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, I hope that you already have VIM on you laptop if not check my previous article which i mentioned in the beginning of this article.

now just open the enc.ps1 file in vim so that we can check that if file is opening in the vim or not.

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ok, file is opening, now press "ESCAPE" key and type q! in vim. {q means quit}

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now open the file again with -x parameter on vim. {small x not X (as VIM is based on Linux and Linux is case sensitive)}

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Now it ask you to enter a encryption password, provide it .

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Ok type the same password again.

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It open our .PS1 file,, now type,press "Escape" key again., in colon type wq! and press enter {w=write, q=quit}

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okies we are back to our Powershell console.

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Now lets open our enc.Ps1 Powershell script file in notepad.

Ooops,, i don't know this "Alien's" scripting language,, i think we need "Sherlock Holmes" to decode it..

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Mission accomplished :-)

Now whenever you open the same file in VIM it ask you for password first.

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asking for password to open the file.

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and if someone runs it. :)

Damn!!!!! :)

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oh !!!! and how to change or remove password :)

Open the file in VIM , Enter you password to open it . press "ESCAPE" key and type :X {capital } and hit enter.

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if you want to change password provide it , if you want to remove the password, jut keep it blank and press Enter.

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Press Enter again

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now press "Escape" , type wq! {write, quite, forcefully}

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Now we are back in Powershell console. now open the same file in "notepad"

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Wow !! we back from where we start.

I hope that you enjoyed this post.

Thanks

Aman Dhally

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3 comments:

  1. The theme of your blog is very beautiful and the article is written very well, I will continue to focus on your blog.

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  2. Quick question:

    I've encrypted a ps1 script using VIM as above, now i need to share this script on different computers, but i don't want to share the password or else it will easily decrypted. Is there any way to run it on a powershell providing the password as a secured string?

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    1. Sorry, Tyrant,

      by using VIM , if you encrypted the script, then eother you have to share the password, or you have to decrypt it.
      :(

      i think these are the only tow ways,

      thanks
      aman

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