API Create Password with $ in it

[njordur]

Hi,

 

Can you fix so the whenever you use the API to create a password and the password has a $ sign in it truncates the rest of the password set in passwordstate. I proably can fix this with modifications in my script. But just wanted to have this so I wouldn't have to.

 

Example of a powershell script, works fine if there are no $ signs in the password. Probably the same happens with other parameters.

 

param($username, $password, $description)
 

$jsonString = @"
{
"PasswordListID":92,
"Title":"company\\$username",
"Description":"$description",
"AccountTypeID":64,
"UserName":"$username",
"password":"$password",
"APIKey":"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"PasswordResetEnabled":true,
"PrivilegedAccountID":2,
"HeartbeatEnabled":true,
"ValidationScriptID":7,
"ADDomainNetBIOS":"company"
}
"@

 

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://passwordstate.company.com/api/passwords/ -Method Post -ContentType "application/json" -Body $jsonString

[support]

Hi Njordur,

 

Unfortunately we don't think we can change the API to accomodate for this, but we do have a fix for you to update your scripts.  I've given an exact example below which works, and an explanation below that of what you need to change:

 

# Begin Script

 

param(
$username, 
$password, 
$description
)
 
$jsonString = '
{
"PasswordListID":9914,
"Title":"company\\' + $username + '",
"Description":"' + $description + '",
"AccountTypeID":82,
"UserName":"' + $username + '",
"password":"' + $password + '",
"APIKey":"63fca2537db89e4fb32954234532455",
"PasswordResetEnabled":true,
"PrivilegedAccountID":2044,
"HeartbeatEnabled":true,
"ValidationScriptID":9,
"ADDomainNetBIOS":"halox"
}
"
'
 
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://alien.halox.net/api/passwords/ -Method Post -ContentType "application/json" -Body $jsonString

 

# End Script

 

 

Things I changed:

1.  The opening brackets of the JSON string   $jsonString = @"    to     $jsonString = '

2.  the variables inside the jsons string are now enclosed with a single quote and + symbol.  So we went from "UserName":"$username" to "UserName":"' + $username + '"

3. the closing brackets of the JSON went from }"@ to }'

 

I hope this is not too much trouble to change your scripts, and we hope this helps!

 

Regards,

Support.

[Fabian Näf]

Hi All

 

I'm not sure if this helps (I had no time to test it).

I usually create the JSON as following: Create a Powershell Object, then convert it to JSON.

If you do it like this, then you dont have to struggle with the string-creation.

 

$Body = @{
            PasswordList = $Name
            Description = $Description
            ApplyPermissionsForUserID = $global:UserToPermit
            CopySettingsFromTemplateID = $global:PasswordstateTemplateID
            LinkToTemplate = "False"
            Permission = "A"
            PrivatePasswordList = "false"
            NestUnderFolderID = $ParentFolderID
            APIKey = $global:PasswordStateSystemWideAPIKey
        }
        $jsonBody = $Body | ConvertTo-Json

(just an example, it doesn't fit to your requirement)

 

Best regards,

 

Fabian

[support]

Thanks Fabian

[njordur]

Thanks for this, didn't solve the input problem though. I just excluded $ from the input so I don't have to handle it.

 

Nice touch with the psobject, will use that. 

 

/Njörður