Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password - powershell plugin

[philipbbeadman]

So I have created a workflow to call an external powershell script on a powershell host. When I run the script manually it works just fine, but when I run it via Orchestrator I get this error:

Connect-VIServer  Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password

This makes no sense to me, the Connect-VIServer command is embedded in the powershell script and works when I run the PS1 file directly. Any help would be appreciated.

[Burke-]

Disclaimer - I don't spend ANY TIME working with this plug-in, especially actually trying to call things remotely...

Question: Are you using a vCO Appliance? If so, did you configure it to use Kerberos authentication? I seem to remember seeing somewhere that this may be required in order to login to the server hosting PowerShell ... I could be way off base, but just throwing out an idea ...

[StefanPahrmann]

You are probably suffering the same thing as I do. With your powershell connection (probably Kerberos) you have access to the powershell host only. Any requests to other hosts are not forwarded with your credentials.
I haven't figured out how to enabling delegation effectively yet.

So maybe some explicit credentials with something like this will work (called credential store):

(Get-Credential).Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File -FilePath C:\temp\me.cred

$vicred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential "root", (Get-Content "C:\temp\me.cred" | ConvertTo-SecureString)

connect-viserver vcenter -credential $vicred

Isn't there some native workflow which cloud do the work?

-Stefan

[philipbbeadman]

Turns out I was running the wrong powershell script :smileyblush:, thanks for the responses though.