Login script to viserver with reading-host name, user name and password assecurestring
Hello
I'm connecting to a server vCenter or ESX host at the beginning of another script script, so that it is generic, I want to invite the user for the name of the server, the user name and the password and pass it to connect-viserver. I would really like to password entry to be looked at by and that you can see how to do it, but if it is stored as a secure string, it does not pass in the connect-viserver command correctly. If I remove the assecurestring - it connects very well.
$vc = read-host "enter the name of vCenter or ESX host name."
$us = read-host "enter user name".
$pw = read-host "Enter password" - assecurestring
to connect-viserver $vc - user $us - pass $pw
...
I tried to add the line:
$pw = $pw | out-string
But it is not convert it.
How to read a string safe in the command?
Thank you
Dan
Or use the script that I entered info ' Read-Host ' Encrypt
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