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I would like to authenticate an user in my ActiveDirectory with the Username and the Password. Is there any chance to do that with powershell and the activeDirectory module. Thank you
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Connecting to the AD driveType Import-Module ActiveDirectory in the PowerShell window and press Enter. Now we need to set the working location to the AD drive. Type Set-Location AD: and press Enter. Notice that the PowerShell prompt now changes to PS AD: >.
To test a username and password against the Active Directory, run the ad auth command in the Policy Manager CLI. This command manually checks against Active Directory to indicate whether or not a username and password are valid. –u indicates the username. –n indicates the NetBIOS domain name.
An Active Directory domain controller authenticates and authorizes users in a Windows-domain network by enforcing security policies for all computers.
There are multiple ways of doing this. Here is a quick and simple function which authenticates a user to AD.
Function Test-ADAuthentication {
param($username,$password)
(new-object directoryservices.directoryentry "",$username,$password).psbase.name -ne $null
}
PS C:\> Test-ADAuthentication "dom\myusername" "mypassword"
True
PS C:\>
It might not be the best function for your needs but your question lacks details.
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