Retrieve info when using field references

[jlanza]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for this great module.

I'm just wanna ask or report that when you have an entry where the user name and password are set as field reference, the value returned is not the actual value of the reference, but the field itself.
For instance, if I have a username set as {REF:U@T:MainAccount}, when I execute the following code I get:

$cred = Get-Secret -Vault KeePass -Name "MainAccount"
Write-Host $cred.GetNetworkCredential().Username

Result:

{REF:U@T:MainAccount}

However if the value of username of MainAccount is for instance jlanza, the result should have been jlanza and not the pointer to the value.

Thanks for you help.

[jjbaumgartner]

I believe this is an issue because the PoShKeePass module doesn't support references. It looks like there is an open issue on that repo for the same feature - following references.

PSKeePass/PoShKeePass#155
PSKeePass/PoShKeePass#187

Assuming the UUID fix is in PoShKeePass (which I don't think it is yet, at least not in a release), then it's as simple as looking for the reference string format in the username or password field and processing it accordingly.

I might take a crack at it, because it's bit me a fair few times as well.

[jlanza]

Thanks for taking that into consideration. I didn't know that your extension was based on PoShKeePass. I will also have a look at the other one to learn.
Just consider that Keepass is not only supporting reference by UUID but also by name, etc. Anyway, if just only UUID is supported I think it would be more than enough ;) Thanks a lot.