cmdkey delete credentials with dashes and spaces on the name " -" [closed]

Question

cmdkey seems to be unable to delete credentials by target name when said name includes a space and a dash -

I have a credential Test Credential - Iteration1 which I want to delete, but when I try

cmdkey /del:Test Credential - Iteration1

I get The command line parameters are incorrect. since I guess it's taking the dash as a new parameter.

So far I've tried quotes, double quotes, 2 double quotes, escaping the dash with ^, enclosing with {} and none of those work:

cmdkey /del:Test Credential - Iteration1
cmdkey "/del:Test Credential - Iteration1"
cmdkey /del:"Test Credential - Iteration1"
cmdkey /del:{Test Credential - Iteration1}
cmdkey {/del:"Test Credential - Iteration1}
cmdkey /del:{LegacyGeneric:target=Test Credential - Iteration1}

How can I delete with cmdkey the credential Test Credential - Iteration1

EDIT: I validated that the command works for names without spaces. I created TestCredential-Iteration1 and the following command deletes it successfuly

cmdkey /del:TestCredential-Iteration1

Moonstone

I thought it was /delete not /del, i.e cmdkey /delete:FullyQualifiedDomainNameOfServer. – Brandybrandyn

They are equivalent. And I tried with both all the alternatives. The documentation only specifies /delete though, but that doesn't work either. – Moonstone

What displays when you use the /LIST option? – Graybeard

Target: LegacyGeneric:target=Test Credential - Iteration1 Type: Generic User: 9a004233-bf81-4741-b640-74ed99553b5f Local machine persistence – Moonstone

You put double quotes around the parameter, which you have not done above. cmdkey /del:"TestCredential-Iteration1" – Decile

I did try it, I listed this as one of the examples of things I tried cmdkey /del:"Test Credential - Iteration1" – Moonstone

Answer 1

I had a similar issue. First I found this code:

cmdkey /list | ForEach-Object{if($_ -like "*Target:*"){cmdkey /del:($_ -replace " ","" -replace "Target:","")}}

https://gist.github.com/janikvonrotz/7819990, which allowed me to delete all credentials except the one with spaces. Then I ran this:

rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr 

from here: https://forflukesake.co.za/wp/clear-credential-manager-fast/ and that opened up the gui and allowed me to remove it.

Tucket

I followed the forflukessake url and finally found an easy way to edit my credentials. Thank you! – Saxon