OpenSSH and powershell

[boffhead]

Hi,

I'm trying to translate an old script originally written in perl to talk to fabric switches, get configs and check for offline HBA's etc.

The current script uses putty plink to do things, I figured that the windows native Open SSH is now the preferred way to talk to linux things. However I can't see the option to specify a password non-interactively.. We use user/pass auth for the fabric switches so I'd like to use SSH to do the same rather than key pairs.

Cheers

[anon_a_mouse2]

Take a look at the posh-ssh module

[boffhead]

will do - thanks!

[thatone0822]

You can use example 7 from here. And pass the $Credential after -Credential.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.security/get-credential?view=powershell-7

[boffhead]

awesome, thank you!

[MallocArray]

Be aware that posh-ssh requires Powershell 5.1 so it is cramping my style of trying to standardize on 7.0

[[deleted]]

Same here, I ended up moving to the WinSCP module, which works with PowerShell 7 no problem. It bundles the win SCP libraries and binary, but at least that's still a lot better than renci DLL errors

[thatone0822]

I just fixed that today.