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