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Set-VBRCredentials

Short Description

Edits credentials records properties.

Applies to

Platform: VMware, Hyper-V

Product Edition: Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

Syntax

Set-VBRCredentials -Credential <CCredentials> -Password <string> [<CommonParameters>]

-OR-

Set-VBRCredentials -Credential <CCredentials> -Description <string> [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet allows editing password or description of a selected credentials record. Select the appropriate syntax for each case. To modify settings enter the necessary parameters with new values. The parameters that you omit will remain unchanged.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Required

Position

Accept
Pipeline
Input

Accept
Wildcard
Characters

Credential

Specifies the credentials you want to edit.

True

Named

True (ByValue,
ByProperty
Name)

False

User

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

Note that you should use DOMAIN\USERNAME usernames format for all hosts except ESX/ESXi hosts.

True

Named

False

False

Password

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

True

Named

False

False

Description

Specifies the description for the credentials record. This parameter in non-mandatory, although it is recommended to input this value to make the credential records easily identified.

False

Named

False

False

SshPort

Used for Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

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

Permitted values: 1 to 65535.

Default: 22.

False

Named

False

False

ElevateToRoot

Used for Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

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

False

Named

False

False

AddToSudoers

Used for Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

Indicates that the user account is added to sudoers file.

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

False

Named

False

False

RootPassword

Used for Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

Indicates that the root password is used for authentication.

False

Named

False

False

PrivateKeyPath

Used for Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

Specifies the path to the private key. Use this parameter to specify the private key for the LinuxPubKey option of the Type parameter.

False

Named

False

False

PrivateKey

Used for Identity/Pubkey authentication method.

Specifies the private key.

False

Named

False

False

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information about common parameters, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216.

Example 1

This command sets a new password for the credentials record with name "Administrator". The new password is "Password_1". The credentials  record is obtained with Get-VBRCredentials and piped down.

PS C:\PS> Get-VBRCredentials -Name "Administrator" | Set-VBRCredentials -Password "Password_1"

Example 2

This command sets a new description for the credentials record. The credentials  record is obtained with Get-VBRCredentials and assigned to the variable beforehand.

PS C:\PS> Set-VBRCredentials -Credential $c -Description "ESXi Host Credentials"

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