Using a Resource Password Attribute in Driver Builder (TestShell 5.0)

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This article will describe how to use a password attribute from Resource Manager with an SSH terminal session in Driver Builder.  A use case might be creating a right click command that connects to a device via SSH terminal session that needs to authenticate with a password attribute defined in Resource Manager.  However, this method can be used any place an encrypted password attribute needs to be used in Driver Builder.

1) If not yet defined, define a "Password" attribute that is a 'Password' data type.  Make sure it's not readonly.

2) Add the Password attribute to your Resource:

3) Open the right click command function in Driver Builder, and open the 'resource' variable properties, and add a "Password" row so that the command will receive the Password attribute. (Note in this example, I've also added a row for a 'User' attribute).

4) Open your SSH Terminal session for your right click command in Driver Builder...

5) In the Password field add: 

{encryptedstr2password(resource('Password',2))}

Now, you're terminal session can use your encrypted string password attribute to authenticate with SSH!