New-Object : Cannot find an overload for "PSCredential" and the argument count: "2"
In situation like this, you may want to check your parameter type. In this particular example, the input parameter was declared to be a String. However, the result from ConvertTo-SecureString returns a SecureString.
The error message is a little misleading in this situation. The problem isn't because there is no constructor with 2 arguments but because $userPassword
was declared to be a String
but later was changed to SecureString
.
[string][ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] $userPassword = "myPassword",$userPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $userPassword -AsPlainText -Force$userCredential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList "myUserName", $userPassword
Also remember that if you don't need a specific credential other than the current credential of the person running the command (or script), you can skip all this with a one-liner:
$Cred = Get-Credential
A popup will then prompt you to enter your username and password. Just like that, you've captured your credentials in a variable that you can use at the command line or you can use this in a script to prompt the user for their credentials.