6.1.8 Defining Privileged Type for a Credential

You can assign a role for a credential. For example, consider that Luke is a Shift Leader of a chemical plant. What is the privileged role you want to assign to Luke based on his responsibilities? If you want to delegate both modify and delete permissions, you can assign an Admin role to Luke. In a similar way if Susan is a Shift Leader also in the chemical plant, to distinguish her role from Luke’s and based on her responsibilities, you can assign an Associate’s role to Susan. This is referred to as Privileged Type of the Resource. A string is associated with a credential and this value will be displayed during credential checkout. An administrator can restrict the credential based on the privileged type.

While checking out a credential, as an administrator you can select which role or user credential you want to check out.

NOTE:Privileged Type is mainly used for Check-in and Check-out for Application and Database. For other functions you can store it to use as a filter etc...

Follow the procedure to add the privilege type.

  1. Go to Credential Vault.

  2. Click an Application or Database credential count from the second column. The Credentials page is displayed.

  3. Click + icon.

  4. In the Add Credential page enter the User Name, Password and Privilege Type.

  5. Click Add.

    The credential gets listed under the Privilege Type column. These credentials are populated when you are checking out a resource’s credentials or if you wanr to change a specific user’s password from > My Access page.