The easiest and really most unsecure way to do so is to write them directly into the powershell command: Connect-VIServer -User -Password passwordĮasy, but really dangerous as anyone can open the script and immediately get access to the password we are using. ![]() In a script, there’s obviously no possibility to interact with powershell, so we need to store the credentials somewhere, so they can be used automatically by powershell. Powershell asks then for username and password: Whenever you connect to vCenter, the string you execute is something like this: Add-PSSnapin Ĭonnect-VIServer I’m taking here the example of the connection to a VMware vCenter server, but remember this method can be applied to any cmdlet that support the -Credential option. Powershell however has a way to hide passwords in commands and scripts. When running scripts interactively, we can configure the powershell command to ask us for username and password, but saving passwords in clear text into a script is a bad security practice. ![]() In powershell, in order to use credentials to authenticate against different systems you have different options. 0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 LinkedIn 0 Email - 0 Flares ×
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