In the context of having a private repository protected by authentication and credentials, what is a SecretStore?

[Darian-FRB]

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My organization maintains private repositories protected by credentials. The documentation references, in bold, SecretStore. This is a generic term whose definition varies.

It is not clear if a PowerShell credential object is supported, Creating credential object, or if the / module is required.

If the module is required, it is concerning that:

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/gallery/powershellget/how-to/credential-persistence?view=powershellget-3.x

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https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs-PSGet/blob/main/powershell-gallery/docs-conceptual/powershellget/how-to/credential-persistence.md

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@sdwheeler

Document Id

2af43a73-f1b0-8080-5a70-60b5f51e5ba3

[michaeltlombardi]

A few notes:

• In our documentation, the bolded SecretStore references the SecretStore module.
• The Register-PSResourceRepository cmdlet expects a Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet.UtilClasses.PSCredentialInfo object for the -CredentialInfo parameter, not a PSCredential object.

Regarding whether the SecretStore module is required, a note in the prerequisites section of the article clarifies:

This example uses SecretStore, but you can use any SecretManagement extension vault and with any repository.

There are severable available extension vaults, including Azure KeyVault, that you can use instead of a SecretStore vault.