Why is SPE Remote not using the credentials provided?

Question

I am trying to use Sitecore Remote Powershell following the guide here.

No errors are immediately returned, however, looking in the SPE logs I can see the following logs:

8132 10:43:17 INFO  A request to the remoting service was made from IP 127.0.0.1
8132 10:43:17 WARN  The specified user extranet\Anonymous is not authorized for the remoting service.

The examples that I am following are using a $username and $password param in order to provide credentials, so why is Sitecore treating me as an anonymous user?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You will need to allow the user inside the remoting section on the SPE.config file as below.

<configuration xmlns:role="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/role/">
  <sitecore role:require="Standalone or ContentManagement">
    <powershell>
      <services>
        <remoting enabled="true" requireSecureConnection="false">
            <authorization>
              <add Permission="Allow" IdentityType="Role" Identity="sitecore\PowerShell Extensions Remoting" />      
             <!-- Grant permission to the user to excute powershell scripts-->
              <add Permission="Allow" IdentityType="User" Identity="sitecore\{{UserName}}"  desc="{{UserName}}" />
            </authorization>
        </remoting>
      </services>
    </powershell>
   </sitecore>
</configuration>

On the above configuration, username to allow to execute the remote script is added. You can find more details regarding SPE remoting on my blog.

Once the user is added, you need to create script session with the above user as below.

$session = New-ScriptSession -ConnectionUri "{{CMS_Instance_Url}}" -Username {{Username}} -Password {{Password}}

https://sitecorefoundation.in/2024/06/21/deep-dive-into-sitecore-powershell-remoting-module/

Hope this helps!!!