Get description for hex error code

[colombeen]

Hi everyone

 

I've been looking around but I can't seem to find any posts on this...

Is there an easy way to get the error description for a hex error code?

When I run certutil from within autoit it returns an error code but nothing else if there is a problem

I'd like to convert the code to the actual description.

 

Thx for the help

Colombeen

[water]

Can you please post an example of the error code you are talking about?

[water]

When i run the following cmd I get the error code plus description:

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C:\Users\xx>certutil asdf
CertUtil: -dump-Befehl ist fehlgeschlagen: 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2)
CertUtil: Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.

So you could simply extract the error message from the data returned by certutil.

[water]

Another possible way is to extract the windows error code and run net helpmsg.

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net helpmsg 2

which returns the same error message.

[colombeen]

certutil only returns this to autoit : -2147024810 (Hex: 80070056)

in this case: a bad password for the pfx file

Edited March 3, 2017 by colombeen

[water]

How do you call certutil in your AutoIt script?

[colombeen]

Just now, water said:

How do you call certutil in your AutoIt script?

Local $DGCERTINST_COMMAND = 'certutil -f -user -p "' & $DGCERTINST_PASSWORD & '_" -importpfx "' & $DGCERTINST_CERT_PATH & '"'
Local $DGCERTINST_TRY_INSTALL = RunWait($DGCERTINST_COMMAND, "", @SW_HIDE)

$DGCERTINST_TRY_INSTALL contains the return code

[water]

You could grab the output of certutil and extract the error message.

#include <AutoItConstants.au3>
Local $iPID = Run("Certutil afds", "", Default, $STDOUT_CHILD)
; Wait until the process has closed using the PID returned by Run
ProcessWaitClose($iPID)
; Read the Stdout stream of the PID returned by Run
Local $sOutput = StdoutRead($iPID)
ConsoleWrite("StdOut: " & $sOutput & @CRLF)

 

Edited March 3, 2017 by water

[water]

A bit more elaborated:

#include <AutoItConstants.au3>
#include <StringConstants.au3>

Local $iPID = Run("Certutil afds", "", Default, $STDOUT_CHILD)
; Wait until the process has closed using the PID returned by Run
ProcessWaitClose($iPID)
; Read the Stdout stream of the PID returned by Run
Local $sOutput = StdoutRead($iPID)
Local $aMessage = StringSplit($sOutput, @CRLF, $STR_ENTIRESPLIT)
If IsArray($aMessage) And $aMessage[0] > 1 And StringInStr($aMessage[1], "(Win32: ") Then
    ConsoleWrite("Error returned by certutil:" & @CRLF & $aMessage[2] & @CRLF)
EndIf

 

[colombeen]

1 hour ago, water said:

A bit more elaborated:

#include <AutoItConstants.au3>
#include <StringConstants.au3>

Local $iPID = Run("Certutil afds", "", Default, $STDOUT_CHILD)
; Wait until the process has closed using the PID returned by Run
ProcessWaitClose($iPID)
; Read the Stdout stream of the PID returned by Run
Local $sOutput = StdoutRead($iPID)
Local $aMessage = StringSplit($sOutput, @CRLF, $STR_ENTIRESPLIT)
If IsArray($aMessage) And $aMessage[0] > 1 And StringInStr($aMessage[1], "(Win32: ") Then
    ConsoleWrite("Error returned by certutil:" & @CRLF & $aMessage[2] & @CRLF)
EndIf

 

thx water, i'll try this in a few mins