Credential Store Components

The vSphere SDK for Perl includes two credential store files in its installation package:

■	VICredStore.pm – The Perl package for the credential store library located in:

Windows: \Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\Perl\lib\VMware\VICredStore.pm

Linux: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/VMware/VICredStore.pm

Perl applications can use this package to add, retrieve, delete, update, and list the entries stored in the credential store. The apps/general/credstore_admin.pl file is an example for credential store use.

Each entry in the credential store is a tuple of host name, user name, and password. The password is stored in an obfuscated manner in the credential store.

■	credstore_admin.pl — A Perl application that uses VICredStore.pm for accessing the credential store. You can use credstore_admin.pl, which is an example, as a command-line interface to the credential store. credstore_admin.pl is located in:

Windows: \Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\Perl\apps\general\credstore_admin.pl

Linux: /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/general/credstore_admin.pl