Extract private key from pfx file or certificate store WITHOUT using OpenSSL on Windows

I had the same problem and solved it with the help of PSPKI Powershell module from PS Gallery. While I understand that you look for a solution that preferably uses some built in functionality in Windows, installing a module from PS Gallery might be acceptable. At least it was in my case. First install the … Read more

Send JSON-Request to Flask via Curl [duplicate]

According to the get_json docs: [..] function will return None if the mimetype is not application/json but this can be overridden by the force parameter. So, either specify the mimetype of the incoming request to be application/json: curl localhost:5000/post -d ‘{“foo”: “bar”}’ -H ‘Content-Type: application/json’ or force JSON decoding with force=True: data = request.get_json(force=True) If … Read more

Cannot start service from the command line or debugger

Change the Main method in Program class as follows: /// <summary> /// The main entry point for the application. /// </summary> private static void Main() { var myService = new MyService(); if (Environment.UserInteractive) { Console.WriteLine(“Starting service…”); myService.Start(); Console.WriteLine(“Service is running.”); Console.WriteLine(“Press any key to stop…”); Console.ReadKey(true); Console.WriteLine(“Stopping service…”); myService.Stop(); Console.WriteLine(“Service stopped.”); } else { var … Read more

On Windows what is the difference between Git Bash vs Windows Power Shell vs Command prompt

Git bash is bash, which is IIRC also the default shell on MacOS. It is not the default shell on Windows, although several implementations exist (CygWin, MinGW, …). Git is bundled with a number of POSIX (UNIX/Linux/etc.) utilities in addition to bash; in order to avoid “collisions” with similarly named Windows commands, the most common … Read more

How to connect to a remote Windows machine to execute commands using python?

You can connect one computer to another computer in a network by using these two methods: Use WMI library. Netuse method. WMI Here is the example to connect using wmi module: ip = ‘192.168.1.13’ username=”username” password = ‘password’ from socket import * try: print(“Establishing connection to %s” %ip) connection = wmi.WMI(ip, user=username, password=password) print(“Connection established”) … Read more

Windows Integrated Authentication in node.js Client

2015 Update: There are now some modules that implement Windows-integrated authentication. node-sspi uses SSPI (the Windows security API) to handle the server side of things, but does not do client auth. There are several client implementations such as http-ntlm, but they are not truly integrated since they require the user password — they do not … Read more