You also need to add this so it decrypts the password back so it can be used with plink.exe

Below this line:

$password = Read-Host -assecurestring “Enter root password”

Add these:

$Ptr=[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToCoTaskMemUnicode($password)
$password = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringUni($Ptr)

Now it should all work….

*8)

Put this line at the top of the script….

$password = Read-Host -assecurestring “Enter root password”

and remove this one…

$password=”password”

This way you will be prompted for a password won’t have a text file sitting out there with your root password! *8)