Using pass through authentication with VCB 1.5 (SSPI) March 28, 2009
Posted by itnsomnia in Backup and Recovery, Virtualization.trackback
To avoid saving your VCB user password in plain text, in a config file or in the registry, you can use pass through authentication. (SSPI – Security Support Provider Interface)
There are 4 requirements to accomplish this:
- you must point to a Virtual Center server (no a specific ESX host);
- the VCB user must be known on both the virtual center server as on the VCB proxy;
- the VCB user must be a local administrator on the VCB proxy;
- you need VCB version 1.5 or higher.
Now to actually use SSPI, you must run VCB under the VCB user context. (eg. run as)
example using vcbVmName:
vcbVmName.exe –h yourVirtualCenter –u __sspi__ –p "" –s Any
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