PowerCli - Hide Password From Script

[Bunty11]

$PasswordFile = "\\xxx.xx\xx\xx\xx\xx xx\xx.txt"

$KeyFile = "\\xx.com\xx\xx\xx\xx xx\xx.key"

[Byte[]] $key = (1..16)

$vPassword = "xxxxx" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force

$vPassword | ConvertFrom-SecureString -key $key | Out-File $PasswordFile

[Byte[]] $key = (1..16)

Get-Content $PasswordFile | ConvertTo-SecureString -Key $key

After above i do below and i get error :

Connect-VIServer -Server xx.xx.x.xx -User xxx -Password $vPassword

Error:

Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.

[LucD]

This is a 3-step

1. Create the key file
2. Store encrypted password
3. Retrieve encrypted password and use in a PSCredential object

Something like this

# File locations

$keyFile = 'C:\Temp\aes.key'

$pswdFile = 'C:\Temp\pswd.txt'

# Step 1 - Create key file

$key = New-Object Byte[] 32

[Security.Cryptography.RNGCryptoServiceProvider]::Create().GetBytes($key)

$key | Out-File -FilePath $keyFile

# Step 2 - Create password file with key encryption

$user = 'user'

$pswd = 'VMware1!'

$secPswd = $pswd | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force

$secPswd | ConvertFrom-SecureString -Key (Get-Content -Path $keyFile) |

Set-Content -Path $pswdFile

# Step 3 - Retrieve password

$encryptedPswd = Get-Content -Path $pswdFile | ConvertTo-SecureString -Key (Get-Content -Path $keyFile)

$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($user,$encryptedPswd)

# Step 4 - Use credential

Connect-VIServer -Server vc -Credential $cred

[timweaver23]

Get-VICredentialStoreItem	This cmdlet retrieves the credential store items available on a vCenter Server system.
New-VICredentialStoreItem	This cmdlet creates a new entry in the credential store.
Remove-VICredentialStoreItem	This cmdlet removes the specified credential store items.

Examples

C:\PS>New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host vCenter01 -User Admin -Password pass

C:\PS>Remove-VICredentialStoreItem -Host vCenter01 -User Admin

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