GeezerVison

PR Summary

Remoting relies on Windows native crypto APIs to pass a secure string. Of course these APIs don't work on non-Windows. However, the remoting code does not expect this to fail so ends up in a hang waiting for an event that never happens.

Have not figured out how to return an error to the user in the case Get-Credential is called within a PSSession. Currently it just quietly closes the remote connection. Paul Higinbotham (@PaulHigin) can you give a pointer to where this code would exist? Debugging the current code, it has a bunch of error handlers which just result in the pssession being closed and not sure where throwing is appropriate.

Fix #8723

PR Context

Fix is to provide implementations of the Win32 native pinvoke apis that throw an exception. The reason to do it this way is that there's a bunch of code that calls some of the APIs of the wrapper .Net class to setup structures that eventually get passed to the win32 api. Throwing in the managed class causes other things to fail early that should work on non-Windows.

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