PowerShell SecurePassword
Good Morning,
I want to copy files from Windows Server to SSH Server via WinSCP Script. My goal is to encrypt the login password of the SSH server in the script. I tried to encrypt the password as in this tutorial: https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_protecting_credentials_for_automation#powershell
First I converted the plaintext password in a separate PowerShell with this command:
Now I have copied the generated string into my XML file:
now I started my PowerShell script:
This is my script:
I get the following error:
I want to copy files from Windows Server to SSH Server via WinSCP Script. My goal is to encrypt the login password of the SSH server in the script. I tried to encrypt the password as in this tutorial: https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_protecting_credentials_for_automation#powershell
First I converted the plaintext password in a separate PowerShell with this command:
Read-Host -AsSecureString | ConvertFrom-SecureString
<Configuration> <UserName>username</UserName> <Password>01000000d08c9.....</Password> </Configuration>
This is my script:
try { # Read XML configuration file [xml]$config = Get-Content "C:\temp\config.xml" # Load WinSCP .NET assembly Add-Type -Path "path-to-winscp\WinSCPnet.dll" # Setup session options $sessionOptions = New-Object WinSCP.SessionOptions -Property @{ $sessionOptions.SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $config.Configuration.Password Protocol = [WinSCP.Protocol]::Scp HostName = "my-ip-address" UserName = $config.Configuration.UserName Password = $sessionOptions.SecurePassword SshHostKeyFingerprint = "ssh-ed25519 255 my-finger-print" } $session = New-Object WinSCP.Session try { # Connect $session.Open($sessionOptions) # Upload files $transferOptions = New-Object WinSCP.TransferOptions $transferOptions.TransferMode = [WinSCP.TransferMode]::Binary $transferResult = $session.PutFiles("my-source-path\myfile-*", "my-destination-path", $False, $transferOptions) # Throw on any error $transferResult.Check() # Print results foreach ($transfer in $transferResult.Transfers) { Write-Host "Upload of $($transfer.FileName) succeeded" } } finally { # Disconnect, clean up $session.Dispose() } exit 0 } catch { Write-Host "Error: $($_.Exception.Message)" exit 1 }
What did I do wrong?Error: The System.Security.SecureString element was not found for the specified .NET object.
