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Colyn1337_11562's avatar
Colyn1337_11562
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Mar 23, 2015

iControl ConnectionInfo Plain Text Password

I noticed that iControl stores the authentication credentials in plain text under ConnectionInfo. Is there a way to get iControl to use a secure string or something other than plain text for password...
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Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
Mar 25, 2015

There are several ways to pass in credentials

Initialize-F5.iControl -Hostname $host -Username $user -Password $pass
Initialize-F5.iControl -Hostname $host -PSCredentials $ps_creds
Initialize-F5.iControl -Hostname $host -Credentials $net_creds

The PSCredentials takes a PowerShell PSCredential object while the Credentials parameter takes a core .Net NetworkCredential object.

Hope this helps...

-Joe