Securing password

# Set-myCredential: This will prompt you for credentials and store them in the file specified.
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#Set-myCredential.ps1
Param($File)
$Credential = Get-Credential
$credential.Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Set-Content $File
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#Get-myCredential: This will get you credentials from a file specified. It require you know the user name.
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#Get-myCredential.ps1
Param($User,$File)
$password = Get-Content $File | ConvertTo-SecureString
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential($user,$password)
$credential
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#With these two script you can do something like this (using VMware Toolkit for example.)

#c:\scripts\Set-myCredential.ps1 c:\tools\mp.txt
#$creds = c:\scripts\Get-myCredential.ps1 MyUserName c:\tools\mp.txt
#Get-ViServer MyVirtualCenter -cred $creds

# Borrowed from http://bsonposh.com/archives/338 :-)