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 is located in the following
location.
OS Location Windows \Program Files (x86)\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 the following location.
OS Location Windows \Program Files(x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\Perl\apps\general\credstore_admin.pl Linux /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/general/credstore_admin.pl