Automatically sign powershell script using Get-PfxCertificate

Question

I have to sign remote scripts with a certificate from the remote machine from which I have a .pfx file.

I would like to automate the scripting by supplying the password to the Get-PfxCertificate programmatically.

So the question is:

Is it possible to somehow supply programmatically the required password to

Get-PfxCertificate?

Answer 1

I did a bit of checking around on this and couldn't find a clean way to provide the password programmatically. I suspect it is meant to be this way for security reasons. Either that or the PowerShell development team just blew it by not including a Credential parameter for this cmdlet. The only other option I can think of is to use someting like SendKeys to send the individual password character key presses to the PowerShell console at the right time via a background job (blech - just threw up in my mouth a little). :-)