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edware Guest

SshPrivateKeyPassphrase and ConvertTo-SecureString

2016-05-06 10:15

When using

SshPrivateKeyPassphrase

with a text based passphrase the powershell script works fine.
If i try to use it with:

$sessionOptions.SshPrivateKeyPassphrase = ConvertTo-SecureString

I get an error:
Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent command exit status 0.

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workarount

2016-05-06 16:03

Found a workaround:

$sessionOptions.SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString 
$sessionOptions.SshPrivateKeyPassphrase = $sessionOptions.SecurePassword

And this works.

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Re: workarount

2016-05-06 16:37

edware wrote:

Found a workaround:

$sessionOptions.SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString 
$sessionOptions.SshPrivateKeyPassphrase = $sessionOptions.SecurePassword

And this works.

Now when testing on another system it is not working.

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Re: SshPrivateKeyPassphrase and ConvertTo-SecureString

2016-05-09

The SecureString is supported for password only, not for passphrase.

You have to decrypt the secure string yourself.
See https://stackoverflow.com/q/28352141/850848

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