topic Re: connect-nccontroller without password prompt in Microsoft Virtualization Discussions

connect-nccontroller without password prompt

AK_Win — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:11:26 GMT

Hi together,

I'm trying to run a script (exporting shares etc.) without a password promt.

Our CVO 9.5P10 is domain joined and the user the powershell session is running with is set as admin on clust and svm level.

Is there a way to use the user of the Powershell session to do the login without storing the password somewhere and without having a password prompt?

I tried multiple things, e.g.

connect-nccontroller $server

connect-nccontroller $server -Credential $(whoami)

Re: connect-nccontroller without password prompt

JGPSHNTAP — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:24:22 GMT

Check the man pages.. Here is the full information

C:\PS>$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "p@ssword" -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList "admin",$password
Connect-NcController 10.61.172.155 -Credential $cred

Connect to controller '10.61.172.155' using HTTP/HTTPS but suppress the credential prompt by creating a PSCredential object programmatically.

Re: connect-nccontroller without password prompt

AK_Win — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:31:56 GMT

Yes, I read this. But this means I have to store the password one time. And I have to change this when the domain password changes.

Is there no way to use the token of the already logged in user?

Re: connect-nccontroller without password prompt

mcgue — Sun, 03 May 2020 20:02:14 GMT

Someone shared this on another post of mine. You can pass this for the credentials.

#Store credentials if needed
if (!($Creds)){Set-Variable -Name Creds -Value (Get-Credential -credential "$env:userdomain\$env:username") -Scope Global -Visibility Public -Option AllScope}

Re: connect-nccontroller without password prompt

donny_lang — Mon, 04 May 2020 13:42:57 GMT

My recommendation would be to look at the "Add-NcCredential" cmdlet for encrypted storage of cached credentials that can be used by the PSTK. You could also use the "Credential Manager" module from the PowerShell Gallery, which provides you a method to retrieve credentials from the native Windows Credential Manager. I've used both of these options with good results in my code.