terminal: Get-Credentials fails to open a prompt for password on 1.15.2713 (Windows 11)

Windows Terminal version

1.15.2713.0

Windows build number

10.0.22621.0

Other Software

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Steps to reproduce

Open Terminal and type Get-Credential

Expected Behavior

Prompt for password to enter

Actual Behavior

Throws an error message:

Get-Credential : Cannot process command because of one or more missing mandatory parameters: Credential.
At line:1 char:1
+ Microsoft.PowerShell.Security\Get-Credential
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-Credential], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingMandatoryParameter,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetCredentialCommand

Works fine when using 1.16.2642.0 or using PowerShell 7. The difference being is that PowerShell 7 doesn’t open outside window, and PowerShell 5.1 triggers an external window which is why there may be an issue.

Here’s how it looks when working (in 1.16.2642.0)

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 5
Comments: 18 (4 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Give the root PID owhership of the pseudoconsole window This is a partial fix for the Get-Credential issue. While investigating it, I found that the pseudoconsole window is not marked as being "owned... — committed to microsoft/terminal by DHowett 2 years ago
Give the root PID owhership of the pseudoconsole window This is a partial fix for the Get-Credential issue. While investigating it, I found that the pseudoconsole window is not marked as being "owned... — committed to microsoft/terminal by DHowett 2 years ago
Give the root PID ownership of the pseudoconsole window (#14196) This is a partial fix for the Get-Credential issue. While investigating it, I found that the pseudoconsole window is not marked as bei... — committed to microsoft/terminal by DHowett 2 years ago
Give the root PID ownership of the pseudoconsole window (#14196) This is a partial fix for the Get-Credential issue. While investigating it, I found that the pseudoconsole window is not marked as bei... — committed to microsoft/terminal by DHowett 2 years ago
Give the root PID ownership of the pseudoconsole window (#14196) This is a partial fix for the Get-Credential issue. While investigating it, I found that the pseudoconsole window is not marked as bei... — committed to microsoft/terminal by DHowett 2 years ago
Fix: Terminal Get-Credential prompt https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/14119 — committed to JMDirksen/DiskVolumeCheck by JMDirksen a year ago

Most upvoted comments

Same here with 1.15.2713.0 in Windows 11 Pro.

If you open Out-GridView first then Get-Credential it works

mruncleleon on Oct 4, 2022

See https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/11847#issuecomment-1402554766 for a workaround that gets PowerShell to prompt for the credential using the command line rather than through a credui window.

jborean93 on Apr 20, 2023

Looping back on this:

This is something we actually can’t fix on our side. It would require a dotnet foundation fix, which won’t happen, because that’s not really maintained anymore (in favor of dotnet core).

Since this is kinda at an impasse blocked on this old version of dotnet, we’re going to close this out on our side. Thanks everyone

zadjii-msft on Oct 4, 2023

See #11847 (comment) for a workaround that gets PowerShell to prompt for the credential using the command line rather than through a credui window.

Or just run Out-GridView once. After that Get-Credential works even after rebooting and cold start.

Thanks, only don’t understand what kind of sorcery this is! 😄

jeroenebus on Apr 22, 2023