Powershell and Jenkins - Execute Powershell Script as another user

Question

I have an environment formed by a Jenkins Server, a couple of Jenkins Slaves (windows) and several remote windows computers all part of the same domain.

I need to run a jenkins job, which executes a powershell snippet consisted of several functions (part of a custom modules loaded on the Jenkins Slave) against other windows remote computers in the same domain (which do not have the modules installed).

These modules needs to run under a specific domain account with permissions to access the remote computers.

If I logon with on any of the jenkins slave (with that specific domain account) everything works fine.

By default, Jenkins executes the job on the slave using the NT authority\system account which, of course, returns me denied access errors.

Question: is there a way to tell Jenkins to execute the Job on the windows slave with another specific Domain Account and not the NT Authority\System one?

Tried already:

Invoke-command using credentials: this is not an option since the remote computers do not have the modules
Impersonation: tried a couple of functions found on the PS gallery but do not work

Hi, did you manage to solve this issue? I am looking at something similar. — robliv
– robliv, Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 9:39

Ranadip Dutta · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-15 14:51:53Z

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You can run powershell as a process in a script and call that from Jenkins. In the script also you can use like:

$username = 'username'
$password = 'password'
$securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $username,$securePassword

Start-Process Powershell.exe -Credential $credential

Hope it helps.

answered Aug 15, 2018 at 14:51

Ranadip Dutta

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PSfan Over a year ago

The problem is that I can't save the credentials in clear text a in a .ps1 file. Also, If I run powershell like that I won't be able to take advantage of that specific authenticated session from jenkins. Hope it makes sense.

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