Add-VBRCredentials

Short Description

Creates credentials records.

Applies to

Platform: VMware, Hyper-V

Product Edition: Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, Veeam Universal License

Syntax

This cmdlet provides parameter sets that allow you to:

  • Add credentials records by a user name and a password.

Add-VBRCredentials -User <string> [-Password <string>] [-Description <string>] [-Type {Linux | Windows | LinuxPubKey | ManagedSvcAccount}] [-SshPort <int>] [-Passphrase <string>] [-ElevateToRoot] [-AddToSudoers] [-FailoverToSu] [-RootPassword <string>] [-PrivateKeyPath <string>] [-PrivateKey <string>]  [<CommonParameters>]

  • Add credentials records by specifying the user credentials.

Add-VBRCredentials -Credential <pscredential> [-Description <string>] [-Type {Linux | Windows | LinuxPubKey | ManagedSvcAccount}][-SshPort <int>] [-Passphrase <string>] [-ElevateToRoot] [-AddToSudoers] [-FailoverToSu] [-RootPassword <string>] [-PrivateKeyPath <string>] [-PrivateKey <string>]  [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet creates a new credentials record that you can use to:

  • Authenticate with the instances of your virtual infrastructure.
  • Add Windows or Linux credentials records including authentication using the Identity/Pubkey method.
  • Add Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs). For more information, see the Using Group Managed Service Accounts section in the User Guide for VMware vSphere.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Type

Required

Position

Accept Pipeline Input

User

Specifies a user name you want to use for authenticating with instances of your virtual infrastructure.

Note: You should use DOMAIN\username format for all hosts except ESX/ESXi hosts.

String

True

Named

False

Password

Specifies a password you want to use for authenticating with instances of your virtual infrastructure.

Note: This parameter is not required if the Type parameter is set to ManagedSvcAccount. In other cases, this parameter is required.

String

False

Named

False

Credential

Specifies credentials you want to add.

Accepts the PSCredential object. To get this object, run the Get-Credential cmdlet.

True

Named

False

Description

Specifies a description for a credentials record. It is recommended to input this value to make credential records easily identified.

String

False

Named

False

Type

Specifies the credentials type: Linux, Windows, LinuxPubKey, ManagedSvcAccount.

Default: Windows.

VBRCredentialsType

False

Named

False

SshPort

For the Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

Specifies a number of an SSH port that you want to use to connect to a Linux server.

Permitted values: 1 to 65535.

Default: 22.

Int32

False

Named

False

Passphrase

Specifies a passphrase for a Linux private key on the backup server.

String

False

Named

False

ElevateToRoot

For the Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

Defines that non-root users are provided with root account privileges.

SwitchParameter

False

Named

False

AddToSudoers

For the Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

Defines that a user account is added to sudoers file.

Default: (if the ElevateToRoot parameter is set to False) False.

SwitchParameter

False

Named

False

FailoverToSu

Defines that Veeam Backup & Replication will use the su command if the sudo command fails.

If you provide this parameter, Veeam Backup & Replication will failover to the su command if sudo command fails. Otherwise, if sudo fails Veeam Backup & Replication will not be able to add Linux credentials records.

SwitchParameter

False

Named

False

RootPassword

For the Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

Specifies a root password for authentication.

String

False

Named

False

PrivateKeyPath

For the Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

The private key is located at the c:\temp\deneb.ppk path. Use this parameter to specify a private key for the Linux public key option of the Type parameter.

String

False

Named

False

PrivateKey

For the Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

Specifies a private key.

String

False

Named

False

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see Microsoft Docs.

Output Object

The cmdlet returns the CCredentials object that contains user credentials records.

Examples

Add-VBRCredentialsExample 1. Creating New Windows Credentials Record Using User Name and Password

This command creates a new Windows credentials record with the Administrator user name and the qwerty password of the account. The description is Administrator Credentials.

Add-VBRCredentials -Type "Windows" -User "Administrator" -Password "qwerty" -Description "Administrator Credentials"

Add-VBRCredentialsExample 2. Creating New Credentials Record for Administrator

This example shows how to add a credential record for administrator.

Get-Credential | Add-VBRCredentials -Description "Administrator Credentials"

Perform the following steps:

  1. Run the Get-Credential cmdlet.
  2. Pipe the cmdlet output to the Add-VBRCredentials cmdlet. Specify the Description parameter value.

Add-VBRCredentialsExample 3. Creating New Linux Credentials Record for Administrator

This command adds a Linux credentials record with the Administrator user name and the qwerty password of the account. The credentials record will use the 23 SSH port. The root password privileges are given to the user.

Add-VBRCredentials -Type "Linux" -User "Administrator" -Password "qwerty" -SshPort "23" -ElevateToRoot -AddToSudoers -RootPassword "rootpwd"

Add-VBRCredentialsExample 4. Adding Linux Pubkey Credentials Record

This command adds a Linux Pubkey credentials record with the user1 user name and the qwerty password of the account. The path to the private key is c:\temp\deneb.ppk. The passphrase to the private key is Pass.

Add-VBRCredentials -Type "LinuxPubKey" -User "user1" –Password "qwerty" -PrivateKeyPath "c:\temp\deneb.ppk" -Passphrase "Pass"

Related Commands

Get-VBRCredentials