Help with adding a user copying permissions from another user $RoleDefinition.Name SharePoint 2010 Powershell

Question

Hello,
I need to basically find everyplace 'ADUser1' exists and then add a new 'ADUser2' with the same permissions as the first group.
I have created a script that runs through an entire web app and finds everyplace the AD account is directly given access to and access via a group.  I then need to add the new user and assign the permissions from the first ADUser, copy them. Below
is not the entire script, just where I'm trying to add the new user.  The rest of the script works fine to find the first user.  I'm stuck with this part:  $role = $_.RoleDefinitions[$newRoleDef].  I get an error that I can call a method
on a null valued experssion.. I guess I don't know how to specify to copy the role from the first user, and use it to set the new user?
          #Get the Permissions assigned to user
           $WebUserPermissions=@()
             foreach ($RoleDefinition  in $WebRoleAssignment.RoleDefinitionBindings)
                             $WebUserPermissions += $RoleDefinition.Name +";"
        $newRoleDef = $RoleDefinition.Name
          #write-host "with these permissions: " $WebUserPermissions
          #Send the Data to Log file
          "$($Web.Url) `t Site `t $($Web.Title)`t Direct Permission `t $($WebUserPermissions)" | Out-File C:\Apps\Scripts\Logs\UserAccessReport.csv -Append
    $assignment = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoleAssignment($account)
                $role = $_.RoleDefinitions[$newRoleDef]
                $assignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add($role)
                $_.RoleAssignments.Add($assignment)

Answer 1

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to copy user permission to another user via PowerShell.
Instead of copy permission to another user, we can get the user permission, assign the permission to a group, then add the other user to the group. Now the user would get the same permssion as this user.
http://get-spscripts.com/2010/07/adding-groups-with-permission-levels-to.html
http://blog.thefullcircle.com/2013/02/create-a-sharepoint-group-with-permissions-and-add-an-ad-group-to-it/
We can also use the third-party tool to achieve the same scenario.
http://permissionsmanager.codeplex.com/
http://www.boostsolutions.com/blog/how-to-copy-permissions-to-other-users-in-sharepoint/
Thanks,
Jason
Jason Guo
TechNet Community Support